About

Anne Catherine Nobre is a photographer based in Paris. She works from reality, without staging. She photographs the street as well as the places she passes through, inhabits, or is entrusted with photographing. Her relationship with images still carries something of a childhood intuition: as a child, she imagined that cinema simply meant filming life as it actually unfolded.

Born in Germany to Portuguese parents and raised in France, she grew up surrounded by photographs. Her mother gave her her first camera at the age of six; her sister and her sister’s best friend, both passionate about photography, introduced her early on to humanist and street photography. She also spent a great deal of time looking through family and childhood albums, at a time when photographs were fewer and kept as precious archives.

Dyslexic, she learned early on to work around conventional forms of learning and developed other ways of understanding what surrounded her, particularly through observation, listening, images and creativity. Her mother’s long illness, followed by her death when Anne Catherine was in her early twenties, had a lasting impact on her relationship with time. It deepened her awareness of what passes and what disappears, but also of the part that remains ours in deciding what we make of what happens to us. Without becoming the direct subject of her photographs, this experience feeds a need to transform what is lived and to look within it for what might still allow something to be understood, created or built.

Before photography became central to her practice, this creative impulse took different forms. After studying sound, she worked in sound production and sound design, then wrote, composed, produced and performed, notably as part of Wekeed. Her path also led her to film, first in production and later, after spending two years in Canada training in carpentry, in the art department. Photography, never far away, regained an important place in 2021 and became the focus of her work from 2023 onwards.

Between 2024 and 2025, over eighteen months spent in Asia, she developed Nomophobia across Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia and Hong Kong. The series is an archive of a mutation: bodies that, across ages and borders, adopt the same inclination towards the screen, overlooking the immense material reality that makes this virtual connection possible. She seeks to capture its signs and preserve a trace of them before it transforms again.

In 2025, a photograph made in Hong Kong was selected for the Leica Tour, presented at the Palais de Tokyo before travelling to Bordeaux, Lyon and Marseille. In 2026, Nomophobia was the subject of a solo exhibition at Espace F360 in Paris before being presented as part of the OFF programme of the Rencontres d’Arles. The series continues its journey through other venues and events, including Kiff & Marais and Art Shopping at the Carrousel du Louvre.