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Sophie Bramly started her photography career aged 20, working in France for various magazines, including Paris Match and Elle. Two years later, she moved to New York and quickly became involved in the burgeoning Hip-Hop scene, which she followed for four years. As European media picked up on it massively (before the US media did), she returned to France in 1984, and started selling her work. In 1987, she moved to London as part of the founding team of MTV Europe, creating, producing and hosting "Yo!", the first English-language hip-hop TV show broadcasting throughout Europe, a concept that MTV U.S. would take up a year later. 

 

In 2011, she returned to full time photography and published a book on her early days in the Bronx, 1981 & +, followed  in 2015 by Walk This Way,  and Yo! The Early Days of Hip-hop, in 2021. She is currently working on a primer on unknown suburbs of the Paris region.