Martial Lenoir

Martial Lenoir, fashion photographer and portrait painter, was born in 1971 in the Basque Country. He lives and works in Paris. He acquired his first camera, an RB 67 (medium format), in October 2001. Graduated from the EFET school (Higher School of Photography and Audiovisual) in 2003, he became assistant photographer at Studio Daguerre in Paris, with photographers such as Nacer Messili, Gérard Harten and Francis Hammond. He won his first fashion tests for the Metropolitan, Elite, Madisson and Success agencies. In 2009, he won a prize at the European nude photography festival in Arles with his series La loge des rats. In 2011, he won the ILFORD film award. The same year, he exhibited his series Les Garçonnes at the European Festival of nude photography in Arles at the Chapelle Sainte-Anne. In 2012, he began his series Les reflets du désordre which he closed in 2014 with the exhibition at the Galerie Schwab Beaubourg and the publication of the book co-edited with La Musardine editions. Today, he works for various magazines such as Normal, Inked, Tantalum ... and collaborates with the Mise en cage and Maison close lingerie lines. His erotic and contemporary scenes have been sold at Drouot and are regularly exhibited in galleries. He is currently working on his new nude series When men are gone and Pure Concrete.