Isabelle Schmitt
Multi-award-winning digital artist & photographer-author
DIGITAL ART · MOTION DESIGN · AI VISUAL SYSTEMS · ART DIRECTION
Founder & President · Digital Art & Video Section · Salon d'Automne (2016–2026)
Founder of DIGITAL IS MY ART
Twenty-five years of professional photography & visual worlds
An artist within the photographic heritage since 2010
Ten years of art direction
— Transmission

Transmission.
The gesture, the gaze, the legacy.

For eleven editions, Isabelle Schmitt founded and directed the first Digital Art & Video Section in the history of the Salon d'Automne.

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— Manifesto

Not a school.
A revelation.

Transmission, with Isabelle, is second nature. It is listening to the gaze of an artist, a photographer, a child, detecting the singularity hidden within, and drawing it toward what it does not yet know it possesses.

A consummate technician, she gives her knowledge generously, and reveals what already exists within the other.

Hundreds of international authors mentored — from the Grand Palais to Tokyo.

— Isabelle Schmitt

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Salon d'Automne · Grand Palais · FFP · Aguila Voyages · Centre Brancion · International lectures · Universities & colleges

— Six gestures of transmission

To direct. To select.
To mentor. To transmit.

— I

Section Director · Salon d'Automne

Founder and President of the Digital Art & Video Section. Eleven editions at the Grand Palais. The first section dedicated to authored digital art within an institution born in 1903.

— II

Juries & Selections

Member of international juries. French Photography Federation. Artist selections for the Salon d'Automne, Tokyo partnerships, institutional tributes. A gaze that reveals and consecrates.

— III

Image Reading & Revealing the Gaze

Centre Brancion — Paris. Not a class. A shared session of image reading. Isabelle's gaze settles on the work of another, reveals its secret line, names its rightness. For accomplished photographers in search of their own self-evidence.

— IV

Mentoring Authors

Around a hundred international artists mentored over ten years. Not consultancy. A listening. Detecting a singularity, drawing it toward its direction, handing over the institutional keys — Salon d'Automne, ADAGP, galleries, partnerships. Bringing a writing into being.

— V

Lectures & Cultural Interventions

Round tables, salon openings, institutional dialogues. Talks on creative AI, the mutation of the image, the future of photography, the role of the author in the generative era.

— VI

Curation & International Art Direction

Exhibition design, curatorial selection, spatial scenography. International art direction — from the Grand Palais to Tokyo partner institutions. To shape the encounter between the work and its public.