HELLO I’M HELENE
I’m a photographer and wellness coach, helping build strength, body awareness, and confidence.
After graduating from Art School “Beaux- Arts” and 15 years as a commercial photographer in Paris, I relocated to Barcelona. I explored my relationship with my body through Yoga, Movement and Calisthenics. My work shifted from from making images to creating experiences, from being behind the camera to being in front of it. Living my life as a moving meditation.
Today, after 8 years of movement, I combine photography and embodied practices to invite people back into their bodies and their aliveness.
“Depression, burn-out, exhaustion are indicators of mis-alignement. What saved me was being attuned to my body’s language.”
Behind my bright smile and my appetite for life, there was a deep disconnection from my body. I was living my emotions through my mind instead of feeling them, and that split turned into somatization. My body carried the pain of what my mind couldn’t resolve. When my life fell apart in my early forties, I entered a profound journey of self-discovery to break free from automatic living. Through movement and subconscious work, I began to uncover parts of myself that had been ignored or silenced. Step by step, I returned to aliveness. Gathering these wounded parts created a sense of inner coherence where the outside world no longer dictated my inner state. By understanding my emotions, recognizing inherited patterns, regulating my nervous system, and building the capacity for a new identity to emerge, I found my way back to art and expression. Loneliness gave way to connection, grief to vitality, and overwhelm to direction and purpose. Today, I share what truly worked for me: living in the body, from the body. This is what I transmit through the experiences I create. My photography and my movement practice are doorways to an expanded, embodied version of the self.
HELENE GIANSILY
Visual Artist & Photographer · Movement & Body Practitioner
CURRENT TRAINING 2026
NASM – Certified Personal Trainer (CPT)
In progress
VISUAL ARTS & PHOTOGRAPHY
Freelance Photographer & Visual Artist
2004 – 2019 | Paris, France
2017 – 2019 | Barcelona & Menorca, Spain
2025 – 2026 | International
Selected Professional Experience
2025
ARTE TV — Photo cover for DJ Mehdi – Made in France, Episode 6
https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/RC-025704/dj-mehdi-made-in-france/
2017 – 2019
Lifestyle photography — Barcelona & Menorca
Yoga portraits, lifestyle reports (Culture Trip UK)
2016
Agence Be-Pôles — Interior and spatial photography, outdoor tourism
2015
SARENZA — Still life, interior and portrait photography
Bebobio — Children’s fashion catalogue, portraits
Agence 4AOÛT — Architectural illustration and reportage
2012 – 2014
Cinq Mondes — Beauty campaign + video (Agency: Katkar)
2010 – 2014
Nouveau Paris — Comité Régional du Tourisme Île-de-France
Heritage documentation and cultural institutions
(Musée d’Orsay, Musée d’Art Moderne, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle, Stade de France)
2011
Real Human Films, Inc. — New York City
Still photographer for How to Follow Strangers
Director: Chioke Nassor (with Ilana Glazer)
2010 – 2011
Andrea Crews — Lookbooks, portraits, portfolio
FNAC — Summer campaign (with Publicis Conseil)
2008 – 2011
Belambra Club — Interior decoration reportage (DDB / Omnicom Group)
2008 – 2010
Carioca Collection — Campaigns and lookbooks (luxury swimwear)
2008 – 2010
Muteen (Éditions Jalou) — Monthly portrait & interview section
2009
Rip Curl — Europe 2010 campaign (women & children)
2004 – 2006
TRAX — Music magazine, portraits and reportage
2004 – 2005
20 Minutes — Cultural reportage and portraits
Education (Visual Arts & Media)
2016
Writing and directing a documentary — CIFAP, Montreuil
2011
School of Visual Arts, New York city
Still & Moving Imaging: New Technologies (Continuing education)
2002 – 2004
Studio Zéro, Paris — Set assistant / Photographer assistant ( Vogue, L’Officiel, Numero / Juergen Teller, Terry Richardson, Thomas Lagrange)
2001
Master’s degree in New Technologies
Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Rennes
2000
DNSEP (Diplôme National Supérieur d’Expression Plastique) — École des Beaux-Arts (Nantes – Rennes)
Publications
Les Inrockuptibles, Trax, Télérama, 20 Minutes, VSD, Le Point, Elle, Muteen, Glamour, Mademoiselle Figaro, Standard Magazine, Medium/OFR, Nouveau Paris Île-de-France, Institut National d’Archéologie, IHEART, Modzik, Le Bonbon, Éditions Glénat, Kalliste, Jalouse, Textilwirtschaft, Vice UK, The Guardian, ARTE TV, Culture Trip.
Clients
Sarenza, Région Île-de-France, Cinq Mondes, FNAC, Rip Curl, Lynx Optique, Bonobo Jeans, Belambra Club, Bebobio, Carioca Collection, Andrea Crews, Emilie Casiez, Because Music, Roy Music, Poppy Pantone, Red Stilettos, Success Models, AGF, INRAP, In Principo, Le Coq Sportif, La Redoute.
Teaching & Jury
2015 — Workshops +Lecturer, Icart Photo (3rd year)
2016 — Photography Jury, EFET (Paris 12eme)
MOVEMENT, BODY & TRAINING
2022-2026
Calisthenics : learning and teaching
2018 – 2022
Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Trainings
450+ hours — Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga + Rocket by David Kyle & Pranayama
2021
Body & Mind Courses
Fascia, vagus nerve, mobility
Trauma-Informed & Relational Training
2023
Trauma-Informed Training
– Trauma-informed coaching and counseling
– EMDR
– Complex PTSD
– Attachment styles
2018
Non-Violent Communication Workshop
2019 – 2021
Relationship and healing programs
Focus on self-relationship and relational patterns
Professional Development
2023 – 2025
Entrepreneurship, coaching, public speaking, and productivity programs