Olympe Tits

Olympe (Marseille, 1992) is an autodidact photographer, dancer and choreographer residing in Brussels, Belgium. ​ Olympe started her education to become a professional dancer at the Royal Balletschool of Antwerp at the age of 8 and graduated there at the age of 18. After those studies she developed as a contemporary dancer at the Royal conservatory for contemporary dance in Antwerp and got her teachers degree after that. She danced in different dance projects and made her own choreographies that have been presented on different theaterfestivals. As she has always been very interested in making art with different media such as dance, music, writing and video she decided to self taught herself photography at the age of 19. Her conceptual work has been exhibited in different galleries in Belgium and abroad. In 2016 she won the National Belgium award at the Sony awards in London. In 2017 she ended 2nd on the TV show Master of Photography that has been broadcast on Sky Arts in different countries. Her work has been published in different magazine and newspapers such as Focus Vif, Shoot, City Zine, De Morgen, De Standaard, New Gup and on different online magazines over the world. Beside her conceptual work she makes photographs for theatre and dance compagnies. She's regularly asked to provide the image of a campaign and portraits of actors.