Elsa & Johanna

Elsa Parra (born in 1990) and Johanna Benaïnous (born in 1991) are two French artists who have been collaborating since 2014 under the name of the duo Elsa & Johanna. Working at the intersection of photography, performance, and video, they have been creating visual narratives since their meeting, in which they are the performers.

They have exhibited at the Salon de Montrouge, the MAC VAL, Paris Photo, and the Festival d’Hyères. In 2020, they were finalists for the Prix Découverte at the Rencontres d’Arles and released their first photographic book Beyond the Shadows. At the end of 2021, Elsa & Johanna held their first retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Karlsruhe, Germany. In 2022, they exhibited at the Studio of the Maison Européenne de la Photographie and released a new monograph with The Eyes publishing: Ce que vaut une femme – Les Douze heures du jour et de la nuit