Thomas Phillipon, economist for France-Amerique

Renaud Dutreil,Chairman of LVMH Inc for France Amerique

Alain Ducasse, chef for France Amerique

People stoppin’by/ Christina Murray

Claude Grunitzky, journalist & founder of Trace magazine for France-Amerique

a few informal news.

I got a brand new website here, thanks to the beautiful people at Dripbook, who just saved me a lot (A LOT!) of time and consuming energy, and who along with my friends at Resource mag, invited me to share cheap drinks at LIT on last wednesday night!  

Fun times! Although pretty risky too as for “most” french photographers, drinks & meet parties can easily sounds like professional suicide… see photographic proof from my glorious past below.

 

Also I am very happy to announce that a substancial part of my work will now be syndicated by the beautiful people at Readymade-image, who already sold a picture to Le Monde, which probably doesn’t mean much to US readers, but that is something that usually make “most” french photographers’ mummies very proud.

 

 Oddly, I took this picture of  an ex-girl friend, let’s call her F, she’ll recognize herself, when I was 17 and probably still thought shooting with a fucked up lens was cool. 

Actually, I didn’t select this image at the time, It’s only when i was about to move to NY last year that I went through my old contact sheets and re-scanned it.

It’s an unexpected second-life.

It’s a little scary too: if i had shot and edited this digitally, I would have certainly killed that picture right away, kept a sharp one… And instead of Le Monde, that photograph would probaly be lost in a deepest corner of a 1999 Imac harddrive…

Then again. Would the grain, the blur, the feel be the same on the digital image? That could be another very long and tiring discussion.

 

Cheers F.

New Project/ Funeral homes

I just started shooting a new story about funeral homes as a part of larger project about human environments.

Here are some of the first pictures. More coming soon!

Jean-Georges for France-Amerique

Hip! Hip! Hip! EDITORIAL!!!!

Long time, no serious post!!! Due to the nature of the jobs I did, corporate ones mainly that don’t really belong here.

But the french sense of solidarity is no legend, as I started a very exciting collaboration with my new friends at France-Amerique, the voice of the motherland in the US (Merci Jean-Cosme!), shooting one of our most  well-know chef

The excellent Jean-Georges who cooked us a 8-course meal that will remain one of the greatest esthetic choc of my life and one of the best moment of my short carreer.

 

Livin’ the dream/ diary of a photographer’s wife/1

NB: We, at Axel Dupeux Inc, after a long and painfully useless search for  a free intern on craigslist willing to update this blog more often than we do, are finally proud to welcome  Deana Spavento-Dupeux as our new guest blogger who will write on here once in a while about the ups and downs of sharing the life of a photographer.

Patience is not only a virtue, it is a way of life when you live with a photographer.

I never know what is going to greet me on the other side of the door when i come home from work. An impromptu photo shoot (that has all my lovely vintage furniture pushed into a small corner of the room), half naked models using my walk in closet as a dressing room, 12 rappers freestyling, dead animals (read:taxidermy goats), other french “bohemian” photographers crashing on my couch…..circus midgets.

On a recent night after some (read: alot) cocktails with friends I turned my key and found my husband testing lights for his shoot the next day. “oh your just in time: he says enthusiastically. “for what?” i say suspiciously looking around the room for a booby trap. “for me to take your picture, i’m testing my lights” “phew” i thought.”that’s easy enough” of course i said that before i saw his “flash”

“What is that?” I say slightly terrified. “my camera” (I mean seriously folks) “no, that  monstrosity attached to it!” “oh my new flash! Pretty cool, right?” Oh boy how do I get roped into these things? “is that going to blind me?” “UGH!, How the hell should I know ?! That is why I’m testing it on you!”

Ahhhhh-true love

For the record YES it did temporaily blind me, but you will be happy to know i no longer see traces of white rings when i open my eyes…i think.

People stoppin’ by/ Nathan Thomas. Designer