Dolores Marat

Dolorès Marat (born 1944) is a French photographer.

Life and work

Marat first worked as a seamstress, then as an apprentice to a local photographer, a laboratory assistant, a salesperson in a camera shop, a photographers' printer, a lab assistant at L'Oréal magazine Votre Beauté, and a studio photographer, before finally working as an independent photographer from 1984. She began her personal work in the mid-1990s. She uses colour slide film and her prints are made using the Fresson process.

Publications

• Éclipse. Paris: Contrejour, 1990.
• Rives. Paris: Marval, 1995.
• Carven : half a century of elegance, Dominique Paulvé. Paris: Gründ, 1995. ISBN 2-7000-2007-3.
• Boulevard Maritime. With Frédéric H. Fajardie. Point du jour, 2000.
• Labyrinthe. Point du jour and Dewi Lewis, 2001.
• New-York USA. With Patrick Roegiers. Paris: Marval, 2002.
• Illusion. With Marie Darrieussecq. Éditions Filigranes [fr], 2003.
• Near Life Experience. Paris: Hors Commerce [fr], 2003. Curated by Angelin Preljocaj, edited and with text by Éric Reinhardt.
• La mer by la tranquillité. Petits Matins, 2005. Journal by Jean-Luc Bitton, illustrated with photographs by Marat.
• Paris, correspondances. Avignon, Pionnière, 2015. With an essay by Arlette Farge.
• Palmyre et autres Orients. Avignon, Pionnière, 2016. With an essay by Dominique Janvier.
• Mezzo voce. Paris: Fario, 2018 ISBN 9791091902472. With an essay by Lionel Bourg.
• Lune rouge et autres animaux familiers Paris: Fario, 2021. ISBN 979-10-91902-74-8. With an essay by Vincent Pélissier.
• Dolorès Marat. Photo Poche. Arles: Actes Sud, 2023. ISBN 978-2-330-17886-4. With an introduction by Éric Reinhardt.

Exhibitions

• Dolorès Marat, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, UK, 2003
• Sirocco, Centre national des arts plastiques, Paris, May–June 2013
• Festival des Promenades Photographiques, Vendôme, France, 2014
• Chromatic Disruption, Rencontres d'Arles, Arles, France, 2023