Alexandra Catiere’s life path, from the former Soviet Union to the United States and then to France, both scorns borders and testifies to her striving for universality. The photographer has made timelessness a salient feature of an oeuvre that revives photography’s humanistic tradition in a virtuoso capturing of sensation and atmosphere. Never settling simply for portrait, still life or reportage, Alexandra uses the camera to express her empathy with human nature and, most of all, with life itself.

Born in Minsk, Belarus, Alexandra Catiere moved to Moscow in 2000 where she discovered photography. In 2003, she went to New York to train at the International Center of Photography (ICP), the school where her vision was forged. Two years later, she joined Irving Penn's studio and became a Fine Art Printer, a formative apprenticeship that honed her mastery of the view camera and silver printing.

Based in Paris since 2008, she has developed photographic work where humanist tradition and formal research intersect. In 2011, after a residency at the GwinZegal Art Center in Guingamp, she won the first BMW residency at the Nicéphore Niépce Museum in Chalon-sur-Saône and exhibited at the Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie in Arles. In 2024, she received the Camera Clara prize.

Alexandra Catiere’s photographs have been exhibited at the Modern Art Museum of Moscow, the Contemporary Art Museum in Rome, the Centre National de l’Audiovisuel in Luxembourg, the Photoforum PasquArt in Bienne, Switzerland and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Alexandra Catiere often works with international press including The New Yorker, The New York Times, FOAM and Le Monde.