about
Delphine Blast is a French photographer whose work brings together documentary photography, social engagement and artistic experimentation, grounded in a sustained commitment to the communities she works with. Her visual practice combines photography, staged imagery, mixed-media interventions and participatory approaches. She explores questions of identity, belonging and empowerment through a relationship-based approach to photography, seeking to bring often-marginalised lives and experiences into focus and inspire pride and recognition.
She is the recipient of several national and international photography awards, including the Prix SAIF Femmes photographes (2020), the title of “Book Photographer of the Year” at the International Photography Awards (2021), and first prize in the Fashion & Beauty category at the Fotoslovo Awards (2025). She was also a finalist at the Sony World Photography Awards (2024) and the Bourse du Talent (2026).
Her work has been exhibited in France and internationally, including at Les Rencontres d’Arles, where she presented Fleurs de l’Isthme in 2022. Her series Boxing Queens, portraying young women boxers from Tanzania’s informal settlements, has gained international recognition and continues to be widely exhibited, including at Les Femmes s’exposent festival, the Hellerau Photography Award in Dresden, and the Quinzaine Photographique Nantaise in 2026.
Alongside her artistic practice, she collaborates with institutions and NGOs and leads photography workshops that enable often-marginalised participants to assert their voices and take ownership of how they are represented.
She is represented by Koslov Larsen gallery in the United States and is a member of Women Photograph.
PRIX & EXPOSITIONS
2026 - Festival de Saint-Pathus, ‘Boxing Queens’, exposition et marraine, France
2026 - Passage Sainte-Croix, exposition individuelle, ‘Boxing Queens’, Nantes
2026 - Quinzaine Photographique Nantaise, ‘Kanga Tales’, Nantes
2026 - Mairie de Paris, Caserne Napoléon, exposition extérieure, ‘Vieux Clichés’
2026 - Bords de l’écluse de Solesmes, ‘Opéra Baroque’, exposition extérieure
2026 - Galerie Jean Vilar, exposition individuelle, ‘Boxing Queens’, Paris
2025 - Slika Galerie, exposition individuelle, ‘Luminas’, Paris
2025 - Abbaye royale de l'Épau, exposition individuelle, ‘Opéra Baroque’, Le Mans
2025 - Festival Les Photographiques, exposition individuelle, ‘Boxing Queens’, Le Mans
2024 - Ambassade de France, exposition individuelle, ‘Boxing Queens’, Tanzanie
2024 - Alliance Française, exposition individuelle, ‘Kanga Tales’, Tanzanie
2024 - Galerie ‘Koslov Larsen’, ‘Mujeres, the beat of a wing’’, Houston, USA
2023 - Jardin d’acclimatation, exposition individuelle, ‘Dancing flare’, Paris
2023 - Les Promenades Photographiques, 'Fleurs de l'Isthme', Blois
2022 - Les Rencontres d'Arles, Fondation Manuel Rivera Ortiz, ‘Fleurs de l'Isthme’, Arles
2019 - Bibliothèque Nationale de France, ‘Dissemblance’, Paris