Photographer Claudia Vialaret is the Edge of Humanity Magazine contributor of this photo essay. From the project ‘Women Crying, Men Shouting’. To see Claudia’s body of work, click on any photograph.

Women crying and men shouting.

The former are on a yellow background, with hands of stone they hold a handkerchief to their eye, expressing their only response to the world’s disorders: a tear. The latter are men, and men are hard: they don’t weep, they yell, a silent scream. Instead of speaking, they spit, fuming on a background that is red as anger.

Inspired by cubist portraits in their fragmented images, the shes and the hes compose a story neither of love, nor of destructive passion: It is a dialogue between the uprising of waters and the uprising of flames. Ariane Mayer, philosopher and writer.

Claudia Vialaret is passionate about painting and photography. She has practiced both, and today she combines them by creating digital photographs that she links to works or pictural themes of art history. Thus she feeds on references drawn from modern or classical paintings, which she diverts, crumples, partially destroys, then rebuilds.

This series is inspired by cubist portraits, in particular those by Picasso. Manipulating images enables her to enhance the expressions in the portraits of actors that she photographs in her studio.

Claudia explains: I like manipulating images, I twist and crumple them, sometimes I go as far as tearing them up in order to transform the representation. By photographing again the transformations stemming from the volumes created by crumpling, by working with different shooting angles and lightings, I enhance the expressions, I play with shadows and colours and in this way, I create new images.

Through this series, I also wish to offer a reflection on the complexity of relationships and identities between men and women.

Biography

Claudia Vialaret was born in France, in Nice, where she passionately started studying art; she now lives and works in Paris. She is an art professor and has pursued a teaching career while developing a singular artistic work, at the crossroads of photography, painting and drawing.

Claudia's work has been exhibited by many institutions in France and abroad, through personal or collective shows, among which: Art Paris Art fair(2013), Imagineo Gallery in Paris (2013), Loft gallery in Brussels (2016), La Valette Historical Museum in Malta (2017), Paris-Artistes Art fair in Paris (2017), Émoi Photographique Art Fair in Angoulême (2021), Fabrique Contemporaine gallery in Paris (2023), Le Réservoir gallery in Sète (2024), and Cécile Dufay gallery in Paris (2025).

In 2025 a monography was published: this 220-page book spans her explorations, whether technical or thematic, in the years 1985 to 2025, thus retracing the evolution of the artist.

Each series of works, presented year by year, is punctuated by texts from experts, gallerists, and papers from specialized magazines that were published at the time of the exhibitions.

Claudia Vialaret unfolded: 40 hears of creation : Editions Librispheara