Alain Schwarzstein
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Alain Schwarzstein

France • 1954

Biography

Alain Schwarzstein is a French filmmaker and photographer born in Algeria in 1954. Not finishing his studies, he started doing small jobs at a young age. He worked as a professional photographer for some time and then began making documentaries for television. He has directed about 20 television films and has written about 30 scripts. He got married and moved far from Paris.

As a photographer, he is fascinated about faces and bodies. Children or old people, woman or man, in tags or face to face, he repeats the same image relentlessly, in multiple incarnations.
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When was Alain Schwarzstein born?
The year of birth of the artist is: 1954