Isabelle Rozenbaum is a photographer and video artist based in Paris. Her work explores intimacy, dreams and contemporary dystopias. It is organised in four long projects: Missing Image, Permanent Alert, My Life My Work and Sleeping Works.
She has also worked as a photographer of food and wine and has published cookbooks with chefs. She also co-runs D-Fiction, a collaborative platform for writing and criticism.
In 2004 her Polaroid series Portrait of the Artist as Snake Gourd won the Polaroid International Prize. Her work is in the collections of the National Library of France.
2020: A Viral Odyssey is a photo essay made from surveillance images of cities emptied during the Covid lockdown. She photographed each image from a screen and assembled them by time zone into twenty-five compositions. Her book Rozebud (Éditions du Canoë, 2026) follows her family history through images and text.
