Are any of you doing the Arles Photography Festival (Rencontres D’Arles Photographie) from 8th to 12th July? Nope, not me I’m afraid as much as I’d like to swan around Southern France and bathe in some sunshine whilst peering at photographs. This year, the guest curator of the festival is Christian Lacroix and he’s picked a stunning set of guests to exhibit at the festival along with other fashion-worthy exhibitions all themed around ‘Photographing Clothes’ with titles that make me want to book a random flight to N√Æmes-Arles-Camargue for that week pronto; ‘Model Registration Photographs’, ‘The still life at Vogue’, ‘Fashion Publishing: look books & collection catalogues’, ‘Photographer of Fashion Shows: Guy Marineau’, ‘Clothes in Motion’, ‘From the street to the blog’….. yup all of those exhibitions that would give me so much fashion fodder to think about my head might explode. Painful stuff to miss…
Still, onwards and upwards and I’m extremely glad to have discovered Gr√©goire Alexandre’s work through the invited guests of Christian Lacroix. Pared down spaces and clever starkness are his trademarks and he seems to utilise the setting of a photography studio well despite the seemingly monotonous image of studio shoots. There’s also a sharp linear quality about his work that isn’t about super-imposed graphics but just a smart use of props along with a smattering of digital retouching that enhances the images perfectly.
Wow, that is a crazy editorial. Wicked stuff!
love the play with shapes, form, that sexy first shot and that last one with the light, beautiful.
Photography and fashion, could it get any better I’d like to be booking myself a plane ticket to!
I’m loving all the studio shots, they are very original having spent alot of time in one I know that coming up with new ideas can be quite a challenge.
They’re so powerful, almost apocolyptic in their starkness. Gorgeous, thanks for introducing us!
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i can’t remember who said, ‘photgraphy is fashion captured’ but it definitely applies here 🙂
I LOOOVE the last picture!!!
What exquisite photos! They make me want to go out into the world and create lush avant garde-ness!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I love these clean images! Beautiful.
I’m so pleased I’m going!
these images are soo beautiful and very powerfull and intense!
these photos are great! and inspirational may i add
oh yeah, any excuse to get to france… where does it end???
That second to last photo reminds me of the ghost from Shutter.
(Note: I do not recommend that movie.)
I’m going 🙂 I was born in Arles and live in the area so I go most years ^^
Nice blog by the way!