Girls, Girls, Girls

Cécile Plaisance, born in 1968 in Paris, France, is a French photographer. A graduate in economics and business from Paris-Dauphine University in 1991, she worked for about ten years in finance, specialising in the European market. She then chose to train in digital photography techniques. Leaving France once again, she settled in Brussels, Belgium, where she fully dedicated herself to her photography career. Heavily influenced by popular culture, pin-up illustrations, and Playboy photographs, one of the artist's first photographic series, entitled "Tribute to Newton", pays homage to the portrait photographer Helmut Newton. This series consists of black and white photographs of Barbie dolls dressed in white crinoline. The artist's primary intention is to evoke reflection on the delicate and feminine sensuality of these plastic dolls.