Poppy de Villeneuve trained at the London College of Printing and graduated with a BA in photography in 2002.
Her stills editorial work is featured regularly in Modern Painter, American Vogue, The Saturday and Sunday Telegraph magazines (including several covers), The Guardian Weekend magazine, Dossier, Esquire, W magazine, Monocle, US Teen Vogue, Art Review, British Vogue and most recently and the NY Times’ T magazine. She recently photographed John Waters for the cover of Modern Painters shot the Elizabeth Arden fragrance campaign for ‘Nanette’.
Last year she completed a print advertisement for German coat company Wellensteyn: This took Poppy to 40 cities in America in 13 days, photographing real people wearing the jackets.
Poppy often photographs and films on the road, finding sub-cultures and letting the landscape reveal unseen, unusual things. The Observer has said of her work, “her documentary-style images of people stranded in airports, at the rodeo and in trailer parks, have a surreal quality reminiscent of the film director David Lynch.”
Group shows in the Europe and US include most recently, "Music Loves you" a group show at the Colette gallery in Paris, “Culture Bound VII” at the Courtauld Institute and “I Shot Norman Foster” commissioned by The Architecture Foundation. A solo show ‘The Strangers” at University of the Arts London gallery in May 2007 as part of its emerging artists program. Poppy was also part of a group show in New York and Los Angeles for Nike titled “Being True’. Last year she was commissioned to make work for the Bloomberg Space in London for the show ‘Within’. She was also included in the Helsinki Biennale in 2008.
Poppy has recently turned to film-making, starting with a short film for the New York Times, T magazine, shot at the Coachella music festival and titled ‘You are Everywhere’. She was then commission for the LVMH cultural website Nowness (www.nowness.com) to make a short studying the Rambert dance company at Sadlers Wells, with their new work inspired by the anniversary if Charles Darwin's birth. She has just completed her second film with Nowness staring the Chinese model Liu Wenn in an art deco pool in New York City.
Most recently Poppy was commissioned to make a series of five short fiction films for the New York Times’ T Magazine. Episodic by nature these films encourage viewers to return regularly and each episode can be seen alone or as a whole.
Poppy signed to Partizan in March 2010.
