On the occasion of Art Shopping Biarritz, the Artphotoby by Sophie Leiser gallery offers a selection of works by the artists present in the gallery:
Armelle Sèvre: nature photographs that she stages, such as water, fire, the fog, the peaks, and puts herself on stage, naked, in virgin nature: Series Screens in panoramic format.
Kai Schäfer: lives and works in Düsseldorf, as a professional photographer. Since 2011, Kai Schäfer has devoted himself intensively to his first major art project "Worldrecords". In his "Worldrecords" series Kai Schäfer takes from Rolling Stone Magazine "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time". He photographs the original vinyl pressings of iconic albums in the history of music, on the turntables of the time.
Jack Benaroch: Fascinated by photography since his adolescence, Jacques Benaroch began his career as a professional photographer in the mid-1970s at the legendary concerts of the Rolling Stones, David Bowie, or Bob Marley. He continues his quest for images on the famous plateaus of the Buttes Chaumont in Paris, where he takes the famous photo of the "Jackson Five" with their father. Jacques Benaroch was named "Knight of the National Order of Merit" in May 2003 on the proposal of Noëlle Lenoir, Minister for European Affairs, to reward his entire career.
Stéphane Gizard: he relentlessly photographs an age group (17/20 years old) which, in his eyes, is the decisive stage between the end of adolescence and the beginning of adulthood. Time for self-discovery. In 2013, his first monograph “Modern Lovers” met with real success. Bestsellers at Strand, Manhattan's main bookshop, the book was reissued in 2015 (Bizarre Publishing, NY). In 2014, he worked as artistic director on Etienne Faure's feature film “Bizarre” selected at the Berlin Film Festival the following year. This is followed by an exhibition at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris in 2015, a new work on the “Like Me” identity. New Faces is his second monograph.
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