WHO?

Laëtitia Déchambenoit is a visual artist and ecopoetic storyteller. She lives and works in Saône-et-Loire, surrounded by forests, ruins and archives.

Her work explores the connections between experimental photography, ecology, memory and transmission. She develops a craft-based, post-extractivist practice of image-making, relying on non-toxic processes, pinhole cameras, plant-based developers, and sensitive explorations of the land.

Her path is marked by attention to fragile worlds, tiny gestures, and what disappears yet lingers in other forms. After studying fine arts and giving birth to her son — her greatest masterpiece — she became deeply involved in popular education by co-founding the activist media ODiL in Montceau-les-Mines. She is now initiating a collective called Des Ruines, dedicated to artistic, documentary and place-based projects.

Laëtitia now seeks to weave together photography, writing, botany, sound creation, sensitive cartography and manual making. She creates hybrid forms — notebooks, performances, workshops, publications — often in dialogue with other disciplines, other beings, other voices.

Her approach is resolutely situated, slow, embodied. She photographs without extraction, writes without closure, and strives to gather rather than capture. She is particularly attentive to rural areas, damaged or forgotten landscapes, and silent transmissions.

She collaborates with collectives and organizations involved in ecological, artistic and social transitions (La Volière, ODiL, Bibracte...).
She regularly contributes to projects involving artistic outreach, action-research, residencies and collective processes with diverse audiences.

In 2025, she launched the project Veilleuses, a photographic expedition through the Queyras mountains — the first spark of a mobile laboratory for ecological creation.
In parallel, she continues her research into forgotten figures, altered landscapes, gestures of care, rituals of watchfulness, and inhabitable stories.