Dolorès Marat

Dolorès Marat is a French photographer.

Life and work

Marat first worked as a seamstress, then as an apprentice to a local photographer, a laboratory assistant, a salesperson in a camera shop, a photographers' printer, a lab assistant at L'Oréal magazine Votre Beauté, and a studio photographer, before finally working as an independent photographer from 1984. She began her personal work in the mid-1990s. She uses colour slide film and her prints are made using the Fresson process.

Publications

Éclipse. Paris: Contrejour, 1990.
Rives. Paris: Marval, 1995.
Carven : half a century of elegance, Dominique Paulvé. Paris: Gründ, 1995..
Boulevard Maritime. With Frédéric H. Fajardie. Point du jour, 2000.
Labyrinthe. Point du jour and Dewi Lewis, 2001.
New-York USA. With Patrick Roegiers. Paris: Marval, 2002.
Illusion. With Marie Darrieussecq., 2003.
Near Life Experience. Paris:, 2003. Curated by Angelin Preljocaj, edited and with text by Éric Reinhardt.
La mer by la tranquillité. Petits Matins, 2005. Journal by Jean-Luc Bitton, illustrated with photographs by Marat.
Paris, correspondances. Avignon, Pionnière, 2015. With an essay by Arlette Farge.
Palmyre et autres Orients. Avignon, Pionnière, 2016. With an essay by Dominique Janvier.Mezzo voce. Paris: Fario, 2018. With an essay by Lionel Bourg.Lune rouge et autres animaux familiers Paris: Fario, 2021.. With an essay by Vincent Pélissier.
Dolorès Marat. Photo Poche. Arles: Actes Sud, 2023.. With an introduction by Éric Reinhardt.

Exhibitions

Dolorès Marat, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, UK, 2003
Sirocco, Centre national des arts plastiques, Paris, May–June 2013
Festival des Promenades Photographiques, Vendôme, France, 2014
Chromatic Disruption, Rencontres d'Arles, Arles, France, 2023