Axelle studied Philosophy and Political Science in Paris (EHESS, Sciences-Po), made a little stop in the U.S. (Boston College, 2003) and worked as a Teacher Assistant for Alain Touraine in Sociology (CADIS-CNRS). Her main themes of research were media and democracy, liberalism and the French and American « models ». In Sociology, she worked on women.

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Early doer, she starts as a journalist at 19 at the Figaro and will write for the French New Economist and a variety of magazines (Culture, Inquiries, Lifestyle). She creates her own webmag dedicated to cultural events in 2008, that she’ll run for three years while living between Paris and Marseille. The experience leads her to become an occasional curator (Private Art Room, Village Royal) and to be part of the jury of the first Eurazeo Photo Price, as well as to give a few classes to future journalists (IPJ, Paris). 

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​​As a writer, Axelle also worked for companies, galleries and institutions. She signed a few lyrics for Elodie Ruillier and the introduction of three photo books dedicated to Maria Callas, Steve McQueen and Audrey Hepburn (YB Editions, collection « Les Images d’une vie »).

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As a photographer, Axelle starts around 2007 after she got her first Reflex and… while traveling (China, Morocco, Egypt, Europe). Her interest in photojournalism began in her early twenties when she worked as a journalist and discovered the work of Stanley Greene, Steve McCurry, Elliott Erwitt and Martin Parr among others. Like many photographers, she started with street photography while travelling.  She naturally transitioned from words to images, realising that photography was another way to tell stories.  

 

Showing her work only since 2012, she got several exhibitions since 2014 in Paris, where she was represented by Galerie Didier Forges. Thanks to a contest she shows a few photos in Miami in 2015 (Scope, See me) and the following year, creates an installation on demand for Kabinet 74 in Barcelona : Rhythm is love, like all her previous exhibits, is thought as a dialogue between several personal series. It’s also been on air at Felix Lozal’s gallery-store in Barcelona in 2017.

She then dedicates a few years to fiction writing and in 2025, she exhibits two series in London at the Cluster Print and Photography Fair (Unlocked, Shoreditch) : an overview of her work about the Salton Sea and a sample of her mixed-media series May(be) not in which she made cut-ups with lyrics of Catpower, Tom Waits and Asaf Avidan. 

Docu Magazine, an independent Finnish magazine, dedicates a special edition to Axelle's personal works in June 2025 with a focus on her portraits and her personal series Play.

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Axelle does mainly portraits and reports.

Music-live reports since 2008 for a few webmagazines; still photos in movies (mainly for short films directed by Jethro Massey) and nightlife reports. She does portraits for a variety of clients and artists, in particular actors and musicians : Axelle especially collaborates with a few singer-songwriters as a photographer and art director since 2014. There’s nothing she likes more than trying to talk about an acoustic universe through an image, and she’s always delighted to create CD artworks.

Her corporate work is mainly dedicated to music and lifestyle.

Hard to classify, Axelle’s personal works include several series on the body, documentary photography and a variety of travel books. Axelle also shows a special interest in women issues, the LGBT rights as well as the way globalization has changed the world.

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