Carmen Winant explores how women represent themselves in images
"I think about photography sort of less for its potential to convey beauty and be seductive [...] and much more for its sort of potential to instrumentalize a social movement."
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Claudia Fuggetti is an Italian visual artist and photographer whose work explores the shifting relationships between nature and technology. Through photography, digital manipulation, and experimental processes, she creates speculative landscapes that question what is real. In this episode, the artist expresses her thoughts on climate change, philosophy, artificial intelligence, her passionate use of bold colors, and the role perception plays in the way we experience the world around us.
Claudia Fuggetti has been invited by Photo Elysée to La Becque | Artist Residency in Switzerland, as part of a residency program. Her work has also been featured in the exhibition Gen Z. Shaping a New Gaze, which was presented at Photo Elysée in 2025.
Conversations is a Photo Elysée podcast. This episode was produced by Louie Creative, the content creation agency of Louie Media. Julie Dayer hosted and wrote this episode. Alexis Sudan recorded it. Clémence Reliat edited and mixed it. Pierre-Antoine Wucal composed the music. Violaine Charvet and Eloïse Normand supervised the production, in close collaboration with Photo Elysée.
"I think about photography sort of less for its potential to convey beauty and be seductive [...] and much more for its sort of potential to instrumentalize a social movement."
"The expression that she used frequently to encourage students who seemed to be struggling with the increasingly conceptual notions about photography, she would always say "Just follow your nose". And…