Emmanuelle Choussy is a former photography model who turned photographer. Born and raised in France, she stole her father’s camera when she was seven years-old and started to photograph her friends and family. At fifteen, she won her first literature contest in high school and a few years later she wrote an essay about the « Photo-Therapy » (How the Photography can help people to achieve a better living ?) she has been practicing since 2008.

After receiving her Bachelor’s degree, Emmanuelle studied 18th century French Comparative Literature, then obtained a Master’s Degree in Audiovisual Communications before becoming a self-taught photographer in 2004. She moved in Los Angeles in 2011 to pursue further creative endeavors.

The artist’s « French heritage » brings her work a touch of subtlety and elegance, as she appreciates to claim being influenced by the « Academic movement » of the European painters of the XVIIe century in the set-up of her images. In 2012 her work is diffused within the historical Parisian photos agencies GAMMA-RAPHO and SIPA press.

- In 2012 her work is diffused within the historical Parisian photos agencies GAMMA-RAPHO and SIPA press. Her photos became published internationally, in cities such as : Los Angeles, Paris, New-York, London, Bruxelles, Bratislava and Karachi. Her photo documentary about President John F. KENNEDY (on the 50th anniversary of his death) was published in 4 Europeans newspapers/magazines.

- In 2014, her photo exhibition « Etre & Paraitre » at the Pacific Design Center (West Hollywood) gathered some 400 people at the opening reception.

- In 2015, the artist won the « Harry Langdon award for outstanding achievement in Photography” at the annual Hollywood Beauty Awards, event presented by the Academy award-winning actress Jane Fonda and hosted by LATF USA.

- In 2016, Emmanuelle Choussy was featured on the national French channel France 2, broadcast in the morning program “Télématin”.

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