Martine Fougeron began her Tête-à-Tête project in 2005. In this series of intimate portraits of her two adolescent sons and their friends in New York and France, she reveals the face-to-face engagement of the mother-photographer with the private world of two brothers and their teen tribe. Curator and critic Charlotte Cotton has called the project “one of the best biographical stories that photography has crafted in the 2000s." A book on this body of work published by Steidl will be released in the Fall/Winter 2012/2013.

Tête-à-Tête was presented at Peter Hay Halpert Gallery in New York in 2008 and at the Gallery 339 in Philadelphia in 2010. Fougeron’s work has been exhibited internationally and is held in major public and private collections, including the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. ’Adrien’s Catcher’ is in Sir Elton John’s collection.

Martine Fougeron was born and reared in France and studied at l’Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris and then at Wellesley College. She has been living in New York and working as a photographer for the last ten years, having turned to photography after a successful career as a Creative Director in the fragrance industry.

Fougeron has also done editorial assignments for The New Yorker, The New York Times Sunday Magazine and New York Magazine.