Camille Ayme was born in 1983 in Saint-Étienne. She graduated from the École nationale supérieure d’architecture de Paris-La Villette in 2010 and the École nationale supérieure d’art de Cergy-Pontoise in 2012. As an artist and architect, her work focuses on the components of the modern city and on mobility.

She is particularly attentive to the systems that result from the use of cars: drive-ins, car parks, shopping centres. This interest in active mobility draws her to vacuous places where the promise of a future has been dashed, both in France and in the USA. This constant motion allows her to capture the immediacy of encounters and portray them: people engulfed in their thoughts, but also consistently unique intimate details and atmospheres. While her use of photography always comes in a variety of forms (slide projections, publications or prints), the characters or locations in her shots always seem frozen. This formal ennui gives rise to something poetic that contrasts with the gloomy fate of these places.

In 2025, she defended a research and creation thesis co-supervised by the École de photographie d’Arles and EHESS Marseille, in which she explores the notions of landscape and the Anthropocene, particularly in regards to human extractivism.

Translated by Lucy Pons, 2024