Mathieu Amalric for France-Amerique

The voice of the homeland is out and take you this month in the head of a James Bond’s bad guy!

PICK UP AN ISSUE!!!!  You cheapoz*

* So you can read the excellent paper of my homeboy and beloved editor-in-chief Jean-Cosme Delaloye which is the closest thing to french gonzo journalism i read recently.

* So I can I ask him for a consequent raise for the next issue’s cover I just shot on friday with ???  With??? …. sssssshhhhhhh it’s a secret

Jahdan Blakkamoore/ Musician for Spex magazine

Cecilia Attias for France-Amerique

The french boy is back

I am back in NY and hungry for new gigs.

About the south, they have beautifull sunrises, strong bourbons, hellish country music…

…And not such a great sense of  hospitality…

Meet Anna-Rose Heron!!!!

I am spending a few weeks in France and I finally got to meet my brand new goddaughter Anna-Rose, the daughter of my beloved friends Vanessa and Nicolas Heron, who also takes part in exquisite corpse photo.

As you can see, Nicolas and I are already trying to slightly influence her futur… (Ahem!) slightly…

Anna-Rose, my little love, if you eventually decide to go to law school, I’ll consider it a personal failure!

Shameless self-promotion/Intimate lands in Resource magazine

I had the pleasure to be profiled by the excellent Sara Roth in the last issue of Resource Mag for my ” Intimate lands” serie.

Check it out!!!!

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.

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.

 

New Project/ Exquisite Corpse

 

“Exquisite corpse photo is a photography collective that uses the exquisite corpse method of collaboration, in which words or images are collectively assembled. Each contributor builds upon the last person’s contribution, thus making it a never-ending narrative of thought. For our little project here, one photographer posts a photo that is in direct response to the previous photo in the queue. Whether that is based on content or aesthetic is up to the photographer.  Sometimes these connections are not completely evident to the viewer upon first glance. If for some reason one of the collective do not produce images that make sense within the larger context of the project, they will be immobilized and punished in ways that are unimaginable.”  

And it is my new side-project along with some photographer friends, check it out