Elsa and Johanna

Johanna Benaïnous, born in 1991 in Paris and Elsa Parra, in 1990 in Bayonne, are based in Paris.

In 2014, while Johanna studied at Les Beaux-arts de Paris and Elsa at Les Arts Décoratifs de Paris, they met in New-York during a common exchange program at the School of Visual Art. Since then, Elsa and Johanna have been working together as a duo of artists photographers and directors on personal, editorial and commercial projects.

They have been finalists of the Prix HSBC pour la photographie 2016 and won the second prize of Prix Picto de la mode 2017, alongside other distinctions. In 2018, their piece A Couple of Them entered the collection of the FMAC. Elsa & Johanna won the Public Prize at the 2019 Hyères Festival in the photo section and were finalist of the Prix Découverte Louis Roederer for Les Rencontres d’Arles 2020. Their editorial collaborations include Le Temps, Boycott Magazine, L’Express 10, Crash Magazine and their clients, Etro, Boucheron and Apple (for which they created and directed the short movie « Coup de Bol »), among others.