Emmanuelle Hauguel
French photographer and director Emmanuelle ‘Emma’ Hauguel graduated from the Penninghen School in Paris, before studying at the Parson’s School of Design in New York. Immediately after graduating, Parisian fashion house Kookai commissioned her to shoot their campaigns. Editorial opportunities with Conde Nast, French Elle and Marie Claire soon followed. Hauguel made her directorial debut in 2000. With a natural transition, she seamlessly maintains her sensual and feminine sensibility between still and moving picture.
“It’s a quest for Beauty, a treasure
hunt. It’s about finding the right angle,
dancing with light and the model’s energy. It’s both physical and magical”
- Emmanuelle Hauguel
Our Notes
Emmanuelle Hauguel’s world unfolds like a soft poem of light and sensitivity. Her photography brings a visual language steeped in femininity and emotion, delicate and fresh. With a gaze that feels as intimate as it is protective, Hauguel
approaches her subjects with the warmth of an older sister — loving, respectful, and profoundly empathetic. Through her lens, women blossom like flowers tended by a devoted florist, each image revealing a nuanced, unforced spectrum of beauty and strength.
Hauguel’s work resonates with an almost naïve intimacy, as though the photographer herself were absent, allowing her subjects to exist freely within their own light. Her portrayals never impose. Instead, they invite, offering a gentle celebration of all that is nuanced in womanhood. In her imagery, women embody multifaceted yet harmonious states: seductive and
self-possessed, romantic and daydreaming, playful and refreshingly candid.
This multiplicity, rendered through soft shadow and subtle gesture, defines Hauguel’s unique visual signature. Her photographs become spaces of liberation where femininity is not a performance constrained by stereotype, but a lived, layered and expansive experience. In merging delicacy with spontaneity, she transforms photography into a tender dialogue about inner radiance.
