Maya Paules

I was born in 1985 in the Atlantic Pyrenees.
When I got my degree in literature in 2009, I went to South America, first in Venezuela and then in Argentina to train in photography and cinema.

I started with a director of photography training at La Universidad del Cine in Buenos Aires, whose streets I walked with my Rolleiflex to make a first series of portraits.

On my return to France in 2012 I enter training as a photographer practitioner at L'ETPA Toulouse and I am developing a plastic photography that is interested in the accident, the grain, the raw and brutal report with the image.

Since 2014 I am interested in social movements in France and abroad. Then I enter the agency Hans Lucas while a career as a teacher of modern letters professional institute.

My photographs are exhibited in cultural venues and spaces. dedicated festivals (Paris Photo, Le Cactus Toulouse, L'Espace Saint Cyprien, Bretagne terre de photographes) and published in several magazines ( Réponses Photo, NiepceBook, Le Sabot, Pli, Attaques...)

My last series produced during the first confinement entitled Solastalgia is published in the form of a photographic book published in May 2021 by Bis Editions in collaboration with the poet Benjamin Alexandre de Toulouse.