Lionel Bouffier

Lionel Bouffier collided with photography during an injury that prevented him from practicing one of his passions skateboarding, so he began to freeze his talented friends for fun by trying to sublimate the movements and places if particular to this sport. the urban universe in which he evolves does not leave him indifferent, he works mainly at night at this period, and the dehumanization of his environment pushes him to want to put the man at the center of his photographic staging to tell a story on this universe that he himself has created and which obviously does not make him happy and does not go in the right direction.

For about 10 years he gradually builds his series URBANITE as an emergency, a fact, the images are already in his head even before shooting. Then after this long period, he feels the need to change radically by taking inspiration from nature to set the scene of his series SAUVAGE in which strolls humans seeking goals, a quest, unable to return to basics.

At present, the urgency has given way to a more open work or it is prohibited nothing, such as dealing with religious prohibitions, but also a more minimalist project in black and white and assemblages similar to collages.
In general, he remains curious about everything and staging remains his favorite field to give his point of view on society through images that want to aestheticize.