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Bretonnes!

2 février 2015

Waiting for the spring! Good time to introduce the « Bretonnes » series. The book will come out in May with Thames & Hudson for its English version (Titled: Portraits in lace: Breton women) and in French with Actes Sud. Four shows will start in June in Bretagne, with the Musée des Champs Libres in Rennes, the photographic center GwinZegal in Guingamp, the Musée Bigouden in Pont l’Abbé and the Musée d’art et d’histoire de Saint-Brieuc. The series will take place in the four very different contexts of these museums where anthropology, ethnography, history, fashion and photography will connect together around the images. More soon!

2015 STAY WILD

31 décembre 2014

How busy 2014 was!

In 2015, will come out the « BRETONNES » book with Actes Sud in French, and Thames & Hudson in English (« Portraits in Lace, Breton women »), simultaneously with the four Bretonnes shows in Bretagne. This series provides a different way to deal with the background and the historic iconography attached to the subject. « Bretonnes » deals with folklorism in this part of France (which is very much alive), and on a broader perspective is focused on the iconic representation of women in the early 20th century. About the other gender, WILDER MANN will be still shown in Italy and France, including a selection of new pictures made this year in England, Ireland and Italy.
And I’m going on with two photographic series in the East (Japan) and in the West (more soon) where Wildness and theatricality still hold a big part in the stories.

There are still some WILDER MANN around…

30 décembre 2014

There are still some WILDER MANN around… and I keep meeting them. These are some great moments of joy. This is the making off from the meeting with the Bear of the Comune di Jelsi.
This year, I’ve worked in England, Ireland, Italy. I’ll meet more groups in 2015, a bit further…

More images

« Stealing Beauty » in Sunday Telegraph

23 novembre 2014

« Stealing Beauty », my last fashion series published in the Sunday Telegraph, London. Stylist: Daniela Agnelli, Make-up: Regina Törnwall – Make Up Artist Models: @Alexandra Rudakova and Camille Dugast , Silent Models New York. Photographed at the hotel regina paris
White gold necklace with opal, tourmaline, sapphire and diamonds, Emeraude en Majesté necklace in white gold and platinum with round, square-cut, baguette-cut, half-moon-cut and pear-shaped diamonds, and round, oval-cut and emerald-cut emeralds…

ASAFO!!!

10 novembre 2014

he ASAFO photographic series is now online. It was made this year in Togo, west Africa, with this traditional group of mercenary men, celebrating their voodoo ritual. In this very theatrical series, each member of this society is performing a character, like an actor. Connecting once again with the WILDER MANN series, ASAFO is the fourth series of Charles Fréger made in Africa, after HEREROS and HIMBAS (Namibia), UMWANA (Rwanda) and OUTREMER (Djibouti)
This series will be exhibited at Paris Photo fair from Nov 12 to 17, at the Grand Palais, with Kicken Berlin gallery (c23).

Fashion series with Modern Weekly China

1 novembre 2014

You may like to see this fashion series made for Modern Weekly, in China, with the stylist Nicke Bildstein Zaar . The series contains a selection of fashion characters dressed in Prada, Louis Vuitton, Dries Van Noten, Givenchy, Lacoste, Christophe Lemaire, AIGLE, Maison Martin Margiela, Alexander McQueen, Hermès… A combination inspired by the wildness of the Wilder Mann series.
The accumulation of layers and materials (fur, latex, wool, leather…), bringing us back to the invention of writing and surviving in the cavern of our prehistorian time… Models: Pierre-adrien Dracon, Simon Roberts, Tomasso (Tomorrow Is Another Day).

Opening of the fondation Vuitton

26 octobre 2014

Opening of the Fondation Louis Vuitton. The catalogue titled « The fondation Louis Vuitton by Frank Gehry » came out with several portraits of workers I made in the context of the construction in 2012 and 2013. A modest and tiny brick in this massive project…

Hanging a bear in a church

15 octobre 2014

Tomorrow will open my show at the Chapelle des Calvairiennes, in Mayenne, France. The dynamism of the art center and the beautiful space they offer really motivated me to show Wilder Mann there. Then, of course, there’s always the PAGAN/CHRISTIAN dialectic popping up. It’s pretty hard to escape this, some much that some of the wild figures almost look like saints there.