Mahé ELIPE
Photojournalist
& Visual storyteller
CONTACT
Mahé ELIPE
Fr (+33) 6 77 55 31 65
Mex (+52) 33 3505 2180
WhatsApp: +33 6 7755 3165
Mail: mahe.elipe@gmail.com
Instagram: @_mahelipe_
Twitter: @_mahelipe_
ABOUT
Bio
Mahé Elipe is a French photographer based in Mexico City since 2016, she is part of the Women Photograph . Her documentary work focuses on the human condition with a particular interest in the place of women in society. She had the opportunity to complete her training, thanks to the Nikon-Bayeux security in conflict zone Workshop in 2018, as well as the Nikon-NOOR Academy Masterclass in Budapest the same year. She is also one of the winners of Reuters Photojournalists Grants 2019 and has been selected to attend The Eddie Adams Workshop XXXIII in October 2020. Mahé was awarded by the COVID-19 Emergency fund for journalist from the National Geographic Society in 2021 and recently win the Women Photograph Project Grant 2022. She also was finalist of the YBIPA 2022 of Athens Photo World. The photographer collaborates with various media such as Libération, Médiapart, Al Jazeera, The Guardian, Washington post and Reuters. Her photographic work has been made visible in various exhibitions and more recently in 2022 at the festival "Fotofetiwal" in Łódź in Poland.
Prizes / Selections
2022
>WOMEN PHOTOGRAPH PROJECT GRANT 2022 // Winner
> YANNIS BEHRAKIS INTERNATIONAL PHOTOJOURNALISM AWARD 2022// Finalist
2021
>NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY FUNDS GRANT // COVID-19 Emergency funding
>DEUTSCHE WELLE GRANT // Periodismo de construcción -cambia la historia-
>PRIX LNP// Finalist “Photographic film -De l’absence germent les fleurs-”
>STENIN CONTEST // Finalist "Portrait. A Hero of Our Time"
> CUARTOSCURO CONTEST // Mexico, Winner Concurso periodístico y documental
2020
>WOMEN PHOTOGRAPH // 2020 Year in Pictures
>Shortlisted // “COVID-19: THE BIGGER PICTURE” of Thomson Reuters Foundation
>Shortlisted // FOTOFEVER PRIZE with Dahinden#3
>Selection coup de coeur // INCADAQUÉS INTERNATIONAL PHOTO FESTIVAL
>30 Under 30 Women photographer winners // ARTPIL
2019
>Grant winner // REUTERS PHOTOJOURNALIST GRANT 2019
>Finalist // PRIX MENTOR Session #6 Associted press RUP Freelens
> Coup de coeur Selection, Portfolio Review // ANI, Festival Visa pour l'image
2018
> Finalist, Concurso periodistica y documental // CUARTOSCURO CONTEST, Mexico
> Winner Lauréat, Contest photo Mag // PHOTO MAGAZINE, Paris, France
> Winner Lauréat, Contest photo Mag // PHOTO MAGAZINE, Paris, France
> Emerging photographer finalist // LUGANOPHOTODAYS CONTEST , Lugano, Switzerland
2016
> Winner Lauréat, Contest photo Mag // PHOTO MAGAZINE, Paris, France
Exhibitions
2022
>“Mujeres de la Tierra ” FOTOFESTIWAL 2022, Łódź, Poland
2021
>"Dia de muertos" FESTIVAL BOURISP -Journée du Reportage- Hautes-Pyrénées , France
2020
>“Frontières” MUSÉE NATIONAL DE L’HISTOIRE DE L’ IMMIGRATION, Paris, France
2019
>“Las Patronas” LES RENCONTRES PHOTOGRAPHIQUES DU 10ème, Paris, France
>“Los diablos de Tlacotepec", FESTIVAL DE LOS DIABLOS, Guerrero, Mexico
>“The last Guaqueros”, FESTIVAL IMAGES D'ICI ET D'AILEURS, Carpentras, France
2018
>“L’altruisme”, ANNECY LAC PHOTO FESTIVAL, Annecy, France
>“Tegucigalpa dancing”, LES NUITS PHOTOGRAPHIQUES 7em éditions, Rabat, Morocco
> “Mujeres y Marañon”, FESTIVAL DE LA PHOTO D'ORMESSON, Ormesson, France
> “Seismo Mexico”, CUARTOSCURO, Fototeca de Zacatecas Pedro Valtierra, Mexico
2017
>“Rural woman”, CINEFABLE FESTIVAL, Espace Reuilly, Paris 12eme, France
2016
>“Private Room”, ATELIER MATRESELVA, Paris 15eme, France
Interventions
2022
> TAKEOVER : Instagram, FOTOFESTIWAL, Poland
>TALK: "Conversa en Kaja" KAJA NEGRA, Mexico
> SCHOOL INTERVENTION: "Your experiences as a photographer", PHOTOGRAPHIC SCHOOL CE3P, France
2021
>LIVE: Talking Picture "The Curious Socity", USA
>PORTFOLIO REVIEW: "Solidarity for Montse S. M" , Mexico
> SCHOOL INTERVENTION: "Your experiences as a photographer", PHOTOGRAPHIC SCHOOL CE3P, France
> TALK: "Mujeres en el periodismo Mexicano" , UNIVERSIDAD AUNAM, Mexico
> LIVE: "Fotógrafas en movilizaciones contra la violencia a las mujeres", EL DÍA DESPUES, Mexico
2019
> SCHOOL INTERVENTION: “Photograph outside of his country”, Visible Diplomado de fotoperiodismo, TRASLUZ COLECTIVO, Veracruz, Mexico
> TAKEOVER : Instagram, TRASLUZ COLECTIVO, Mexico
> TAKEOVER : Instagram, STUDIO HANS LUCAS LATAM, France
Workshops
2022
>PHOTO MATCH- Fotofestiwal, Łódź, Poland
2020
>The Eddie Adams Workshop XXXIII, USA, OnLine
2019
>Reuters instructions "Reporting & hostile environment training", Athens, Greece
2018
> Workshop ” Nikon-Bayeux security in conflict zone“, Bayeux, France
> Masterclass ” Nikon-NOOR Academy", Budapest, Hungary