Meet me

Hi

My name is Chloé, and I work under the name Romy, my second name.

I am an independent, self-taught Lebanese, Austrian, and French photographer, videographer, and multidisciplinary visual artist.

I’ve been working as a photographer since 2018, starting with a Fujifilm XT-20, and I now create with a Fujifilm X-E5.

I am a collector of visuals. I constantly search for and archive color combinations, shapes, fleeting moments, and moods.

Travel plays an essential role in my work. My practice is shaped by experiences from around the world, by the people I meet and the landscapes I encounter.

Identity quest

I am drawn to intimacy and storytelling. I seek to capture quiet emotions, subtle connections, and the stories that live within them.

This website is a portfolio, a living digital space, a blog, a step into my intimacy and my work.

I move between cultures that sometimes feel like opposites. I adapt to different codes, foods, languages, and ways of being. I have often felt like a social chameleon.

For a long time, I thought of myself as half Lebanese and half Austrian. I now understand that I am not divided, I am fully Lebanese and fully Austrian at the same time.

Self-portraiture has always been a way for me to examine my identity. The image I create is both how I present myself to the world and a reflection of what lives deeper within me. I photograph, I pose, I observe. How do I feel? Who am I?

The camera has not always been my ally. I used to resist it. It rarely gave me the image I thought represented me, and often I did not recognize myself in the result.

This relationship is still evolving. It is an ongoing process, a work in progress.