Séraphine Sallin Mason

Phinn is a photographer and maximalist. During their residency at L’Abri, they hope to make emo-rock and country music converge by blending hypersensitivity and melancholic melodies, designed for a rural audience. Phinn lives in a self-managed castle, where they practice yodeling and playing the banjo.

Séraphine (aka Phinn) is a multidisciplinary artist, photographer, and filmmaker whose work merges the personal and the cultural to examine the narratives that define us. They grew up in the US countryside before moving to Gruyères, Switzerland, with their family at the age of 13. They studied Interactive Media Design at eikon, in Fribourg, before completing a Bachelor in Photography at ECAL in 2024. Through a blend of documentary and fiction, their practice reimagines visual culture with a surrealist lens, exploring themes of identity, belief systems, and collective memory.
Drawing from lived experiences and cultural roots, Séraphine shapes the personal into images that others might feel drawn to—offering a glimpse into their own imagined way of seeing the world.