She has been following Emmanuel Macron since May 2016, while he was still in Bercy. This month, his photos of the president in hoody sweatshirt, struggling with the war in Ukraine, went around the canvas.
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“An insta of Soazig, it’s worth all the meetings!”, Observe a political journalist, evoking the clichés showing Emmanuel Macron the traits drawn, in hoodie and three-day beard, or in conference call with Putin and Biden At a time when he walked in the countryside … In recent weeks, the scenes seized in black and white and posted on Instagram by Soazig de la harvesters, the official photographer of the Elysée, participate as never at the storytelling of the head of state , like those of Pete Souza had documented the two mandates of Barack Obama.
A controversial political photographer
Former attached photographer of François Bayrou for the 2012 campaign, Soazig de la harvesters then followed Emmanuel Macron as early as the month of May 2016, while he was a minister of the economy and not yet a declared candidate. At the time, some press photographers had moved that she continues to broadcast her photos via IP3 for several months, an agency specializing in the political photo, while she was remunerated as a service provider! She realized the official portrait of the president before being named Cheffe from the photo service of the Elysee, in 2017.
A look, two caps
This year, since the Emmanuel Macron campaign entry, she signed a half-time contract, shared equally between the presidency and the campaign. “The photos of the President of the Republic are disseminated on the institutional accounts, those of the candidate on the activist accounts of” with you “”, explains the Elysee. She is the only photographer embeded “embedded” in the official convoy during his candidate trips like Poissy or Pau.
A Breton of character
Discrete and stormy, the 40-year-old woman of Breton origin, never put forward. If the relations with the first communicators of the Elysee, Sibeth Ndiaye and Sylvain Fort, were a little tense, the situation was relaxed with their successors. She assures Instagram “Poster what she wants, where she wants”, without the communication from the Elysée get involved. “If Emmanuel Macron is re-elected, he will surely continue to work with her. Even if for Soazig, who is a great pro, it’s a kind of professional suicide,” loose a friend.