ÉLISE REBIFFÉ

ÉLISE REBIFFÉ'S STATUS HAS CHANGED SINCE DECEMBER 31, 2024: SHE IS NOW "FREELANCING," AS CANADIANS PUT IT WHEN THEY RETIRE FROM THEIR PROFESSIONAL CAREERS!

"WE LIVE ONLY TO DISCOVER BEAUTY; THE REST IS JUST WAITING." KHALIL GILBRAN.

• Since early 2025, Élise Rebiffé has continued her discoveries through her artistic expression and draws inspiration from the precious bonds she maintains with her family, her encounters with nature, poetry, philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, and Western and Asian arts.

• Élise Rebiffé, born in France in 1959, worked as a freelance photographer from 1987 to 2024 (press groups, advertising agencies, artists, and companies). As a member of the UPP (Union of French Professional Photographers), she created and led the "Exhibition Commission" for some fifteen years. Since arriving in Switzerland in 2005, she has been a member and active participant in the USPP Committee (Swiss Union of Professional Photographers, which became SIYU in 2023). • She has been a member of SAIF since 2001: Société des Auteurs, des Arts Visuels et des Images Fixes (Society of Authors, Visual Arts and Still Images). This is the French collective copyright management organization.

• For 12 years, from 2010 to 2022, Élise served as a member of the jury for the CFC photography qualification commission at the CEPV in Vevey.

• Élise Rebiffé has worked as a photo therapist and art therapist (until December 31, 2024, after completing a four-year official modular training course specializing in plastic and visual mediation therapy at the Créavie School (Lausanne): She obtained the School Diploma and ASCA certification, as well as the Oda ARTECURA Branch Certificate (Umbrella Organization of Swiss Associations for Art Therapy). Until December 31, 2024, she was a professional member of ARAET (Association Romande Arts Expression Thérapies). Élise has been active in the Araet Art Therapy Support Fund Commission since 2019. She has also completed several training courses in Photo Therapy and Therapeutic Photography with Émilie Danchin/Belgium, who was herself trained by Judy Weiser/Canada.

• In 2014, Élise created "Les Ateliers d'Élise" (Élise's Workshops), which embody the refocusing of her professional and personal life around people and the arts, in the broadest sense of the term...