The artist’s studio of photographer Bettina Rheims - 2021 -

In order to keep track of this unique place in which Bettina Rheims has worked and lived, the Institute for Photography has launched a virtual tour project allowing visitors to explore the world of the photographer. During the 1980s, Bettina Rheims moved into the former home and studio of Argentinian sculptor Alicia Penalba, in the heart of the Marais district in Paris, where she would take most of her photographs. A real living space, this large duplex apartment with its interior courtyard brings together convivial spaces, a shooting studio with rooms for the preparation of models until retouching work. It is in his office that the work around images is built with its large library and its glass roof for the control of prints. Spaces are reserved to keep all of its archives. Before the relocation of the fund, this emblematic location of the photographer's career was the subject of a unique project. The Institute is launching the first virtual tour of a photographer's studio in order to keep track of this place of creation. The version of the virtual tour will also be available online very soon on the Institute's website, enriched with new content and will reflect the research work carried out by the Institute on the photographer's archives.