Claire Beilvert
Photographer & Film Producer / Based in PARIS
Claire Beilvert is a photographer and documentary producer. For more than 10 years she has been devoting herself to long-term projects.
She spent several years in Myanmar investigating the Karen war of rebellion against the military junta and in China investigating North Korean women fleeing the dictatorship and attempting to reach Seoul. For two years she followed African refugees heading to Europe through the Ténéré desert and war-ridden Libya.
Exile is the main theme of her work.
'Les Aventuriers' (The Explorers), a work on African refugees, has been exhibited at galleries such as the Aiguillage in Paris.
She regularly collaborates with Doctors Without Borders, the iIntenational Red Cross and the International Organization for Migration and various paper and online publications.
Her latest work is a three-year story about the Jarawa people, the last descendants of the first people, who are living on the Andaman Islands, in India.