Sophie Calle

Hailed as 'France's answer to Tracey Enim' by The Telegraph, Sophie Calle, is a conceptual artist, widely known for her 1982 piece 'The Hotel' - a collection of photos depicting the personal belongings of hotel guests, which aimed to make assumptions about their identities and lifestyle. Her main style of art consists of taking black and white photographs, as well as combining a performance element to her pieces. Calle is largely associated with the contemporary art movement, which strived to reject modernism, as well as reject the post structuralist notion of 'the death of the author'. Other notable works of Calle's include The Shadow (1981), which was an attempt to provide evidence of her own existence through the medium of photography, and Address Book (1983), which caused controversy when Calle was accused of breaching the privacy of the subject Pierre Baudry, who owned the address book used in the piece. As of 2005, Calle has been a professor of film and photography at The European Graduate School of Switzerland.