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“Stealing Beauty” in Sunday Telegraph

23 November 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 November 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 November 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 October 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 October 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.

ROCK N’ ROLL BEAR

2 October 2014

Wilder Mann is shown in Chambery, at the Espace Malraux, located very near the Alpes mountains. An excellent context to try a different way to show the series, connected to some short texts directly written on the walls. Showing in the context of a “scene nationale” brings me back to some reflexion around the experimentation of the performance in my work, and I appreciate the complementarity of my photographic research to different artists, musicians, designers, writers… This time, I worked with Arnaud Jarsaillon, graphic designer, who wrote on the wall of my show some extracts of two texts around the series. Rock’n roll bear!

Site of the Espace Malraux

Wild birds in Louisiana

21 September 2014

The Mardi Gras Indians was shot in April 2014, in New Orleans, USA. This time, the question was to deal with the urban background,as minimal as possible. No landscape this time, to highlight the complexity of the big chiefs, queens, spy boys and flag boys costumes. The project was to set up the portrait of each character in front of a colorful wall of the town, where the punchy colors of feathers would strongly match with these vertical backgrounds. This series is dedicated to Queen Kelly and Spy boy Dow from New Orleans.

Image: Meryt, New Orleans

Working on the “BRETONNES” book

20 September 2014

Leo Favier, graphic designer with whom I worked for Wilder Mann, is designing with me the “Bretonnes” book (we have not yet decided on its English title). It will come out in May 2015, before the series of shows in the French Brittany area (Musée de Bretagne, Musée de Pont l’Abbé, Musée de St Brieuc and centre photographique Gwinzegal). French author Marie Darrieussecq wrote a delicious introduction to the book, and Yann Guesdon, specialist of traditional head dresses and breton customs is working on the endmatter texts. This will be a pretty romantic book, focused on the representation of women. The Bretonnes series, so far, has been published by National Geographic in April. More to come soon…

National geographic site

WILDER MANN in BAYONNE

5 September 2014

Until September 12th, the Wilder Mann show has been taking place at the Musée Basque of Bayonne, France. The show will keep travelling this year in Chambery and Mayenne. Some new Wilder Mann will be in the show as well, from England and Ireland.