colombe clier, heritage photographer
Current exhibition
the cloister of fréjus cathedral hosts a photographic exhibition devoted to colombe clier. take a trip to other monuments of the centre des monuments nationaux.
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No advance booking required. Tickets may be purchased from the cloister gift shop or online. Please make arrangements before your arrival.
On the programme
From 15 November 2025 to 31 January 2026, the cloister of Fréjus cathedral will be hosting the "Colombe Clier, photographe du patrimoine" exhibition .
The exhibition features a selection of a dozen photographs taken by Colombe Clier at monuments belonging to the Centre des monuments nationaux. Through her eyes, the photographer reveals the singular beauty of emblematic sites such as Carcassonne, Mont-Saint-Michel, Talcy and Rambouillet.
An invitation to rediscover the richness of France's heritage through the eyes of a contemporary photographer.
Colombe Clier
Colombe Clier, born in Rouen in 1982, works in the world of culture, heritage, the arts and luxury, and regularly collaborates with houses, decorators, scenographers, designers, artists, architects, magazines and cultural institutions. She graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie d'Arles in 2006. Her work on heritage is distributed by the image centre of the Centre des monuments nationaux.
I've often been entrusted with anecdotes, walkie-talkies and more or less rusty keys. The cellar key, the attic key, the back staircase key. Alone in the homes of Voltaire, George Sand, Clemenceau... wandering the corridors, tumbling down the stairs because a cloud passes by, daydreaming in a small sitting room, poking around, noting the passages of light on the walls and façades, and telling stories through the light and colours that sculpt and enliven the spaces. They make them poetically real, and by extension, they make us poetically real. They surprise and nourish the mind, modify perception, and act as a powerful lever of emotion and imagination. In my work for the Centre des Monuments Nationaux and on heritage more generally, I highlight the importance of the emotional experience generated by architectural and landscape spaces. Both inside and out, places are spaces for feeling and thinking."