Amélie is one of the few female truck drivers in France. At the time photographer Yohanne Lamoulère met her in 2019, she was driving from Arles to Castellón, Spain, and back at least twice a week, Lamoulère explained over email. The photographer, whose uncle is also a trucker, met Amélie at a truck show in southeastern France where drivers decorate their vehicles for a competition. Lamoulère then shot her portrait of the newly-engaged couple in front of Amélie’s truck, the bouquet placed on the dashboard above their heads. She said it’s rare to see a young woman “aboard monsters like Amélie’s truck” and finds it “very beautiful” to see her forge her own path.

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Persons: CNN —, Yohanne, Amélie Riquelme, Yohanne Lamoulère, Lamoulère, Jérémy, Amélie, “, ” Lamoulère, — Jérémy, Lucie, Les, qu’on Organizations: CNN, Volvo, International Road Transport Union, Cité Internationale des Arts Locations: Amélie, France, Arles, Europe, Castellón, Spain, Paris, Cité