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I am a French photographer and production designer working at the intersection of cinema, staged photography and fiction. I create images as suspended narratives, where atmosphere, colour and composition play a central role.

Inspired by the language of cinema, I design and hand-build my own sets while carefully shaping light through continuous lighting and coloured gels. This highly artisanal process allows me to create fully controlled environments in which every detail contributes to the narrative.

My characters inhabit suspended spaces somewhere between fantasy and reality. They seem to be endlessly pursuing something they can never fully attain: desire, freedom, identity or an unattainable promise. Beneath the intensity of the colours and the sophistication of the staging lies a quiet melancholy. Each photograph becomes a fragment of an unfinished story, inviting viewers to imagine both what came before and what might happen next.

My work naturally draws on queer iconography because it emerges from the worlds I know and the experiences that have shaped my perspective. Through my images, I stage gay narratives that explore desire, excess, solitude and vulnerability. By giving visibility to stories that are too often expected to conform to more conventional or assimilated representations, my work naturally takes on a political dimension. The male body becomes both a visual language and an almost sacred figure.

Through my work, I invite viewers into a world where desire and convention are constantly challenged, offering an experience that is as emotional as it is cinematic. Each photograph exists as an autonomous fiction, nourished equally by cinema and photography. My visual universe has been shaped by filmmakers and artists such as Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Wong Kar-wai, Gregg Araki, David LaChapelle, Robert Mapplethorpe and Tom of Finland.

An idea, a vision, a project? Let's talk !

CONTACT@THEVELVETSTUDIO.FR

Represented by

www.leobalzac.com


AGENT CONTACTS

Laurent Béthune & Lucile Merlin

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