Biography
Nine Francois holds a Masters of Fine Art degree from the University of Texas at Austin. Her work has been represented internationally in publications such as Communication Arts, Foto&Video (Moscow) and The British Journal of Photography. Her photographs are part of numerous public and private collections including the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Wittliff Gallery of Southwestern & Mexican Photography, the New Orleans Museum of Art, and the University of Texas at Dallas collection.
Francois currently lives in Austin, Texas where she has taught photography at Texas State University, the University of Texas at Austin and Austin Community College.
She also teaches workshops focusing on creativity, visual story telling and making meaningful, project-oriented work. Currently, she's working with the Texas Photographic Society in developing Our Town, a series of traveling workshops aimed at encouraging residents of communities and towns to create their own photographic essays about their lives.
Artist Statement
I use photography to express personal versions of my own selective truths. My images start off in the objective, as all photographic records do, but frequently don't stay there. They are transformed through various techniques and processes to make them mine -- to take them out of the realm of fact and reportage and place them into the service of exploring and responding to my world.
Making discoveries and telling stories through images excites me and makes the photographic experience meaningful and rich.
Collections
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
Photographic Archives of the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, Austin, TX
Wittliff Gallery of Southwestern & Mexican Photography, San Marcos, TX
Caddell and Conwell Foundation for the Arts, Houston, TX
Nine Francois holds a Masters of Fine Art degree from the University of Texas at Austin. Her work has been represented internationally in publications such as Communication Arts, Foto&Video (Moscow) and The British Journal of Photography. Her photographs are part of numerous public and private collections including the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Wittliff Gallery of Southwestern & Mexican Photography, the New Orleans Museum of Art, and the University of Texas at Dallas collection.
Francois currently lives in Austin, Texas where she has taught photography at Texas State University, the University of Texas at Austin and Austin Community College.
She also teaches workshops focusing on creativity, visual story telling and making meaningful, project-oriented work. Currently, she's working with the Texas Photographic Society in developing Our Town, a series of traveling workshops aimed at encouraging residents of communities and towns to create their own photographic essays about their lives.
Artist Statement
I use photography to express personal versions of my own selective truths. My images start off in the objective, as all photographic records do, but frequently don't stay there. They are transformed through various techniques and processes to make them mine -- to take them out of the realm of fact and reportage and place them into the service of exploring and responding to my world.
Making discoveries and telling stories through images excites me and makes the photographic experience meaningful and rich.
Collections
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
Photographic Archives of the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, Austin, TX
Wittliff Gallery of Southwestern & Mexican Photography, San Marcos, TX
Caddell and Conwell Foundation for the Arts, Houston, TX