Jonas Irène

Irène Jonas is a sociologist and photographer who lives between Guilvinec and Paris.

For the past twenty years, she has focused her personal and artistic research on “photo painting,” coloring black-and-white prints with oil paint. Gilles Courtinat, in L'oeil de l'info, describes her work in these terms: Far from being a simple aesthetic effect or a nostalgic return to old processes, this approach is an extension of her work on memory, which speaks of time and traces (...) It is a unique path, where each image becomes a territory of memory that is both personal and collective, in which color, far from being decorative, becomes a narrative tool in its own right.

She has been invited to residencies in France and abroad and regularly presents her work. She has published several books: Dormir, dit-elle (2018) with Arnaud Bizalion; Mémoires de campagne (sociological essay and photographs, 2021) published by Filigranes Editions; Crépuscules (2020), Lettres à Rosa B. (2022), and Bouquinistes de Paris (2024) published by Éditions de juillet.