A both evident and incongruous work.
When you look at Alain Laboile's pictures for the first time, many references come to mind, though his work looks like no other. This strange paradox is probably the best way to describe this photographer: there is something of Sally Mann or Danny Lyon in his photos but they are truly his and cannot be affiliated with anyone else's.
And it is from this particular porosity in the line between amateur photographer and professional photographer that arises his photographic style that is like nothing else. It is from this strangeness that the work of Alain Laboile seduces as much as it fascinates. It reaches to both our heart and our mind as it addresses many aspects of our view on the world, an idealized world, a paradise lost, that of a carefree childhood,a fake carelessness yet but of which these images still give us an illusion.
Appuis (2013) by Alain LaboileTHAT'S CONTEMPORARY
In his giant studio outdoors where he controls space, time and light, Alain Laboile watches his six children in the same manner he watched the insects he used to photograph before.
La chasse (2012) by Alain LaboileTHAT'S CONTEMPORARY
He often seeks to capture the whole scene in a single picture instead of capturing a central subject. He captures moments of nothing, the unexpected as the expected, the blooming as the outbreak, imagination as banality.
It is certainly not paradise, nor the angels' dream life. It is simply life, just life and nothing else.
Le pont (2011) by Alain LaboileTHAT'S CONTEMPORARY
Alain Laboile (b. Bordeaux, 1968) is a French photographer.
In December 2012, the New York Times celebrates Alain Laboile’s talent. The first shows ensue in Japan and the United States, Holland and Argentina, then in France in 2014 when the “La Famille” series joined the Musée français de la photographie collection. Alain Laboile’s work was since published several times and exhibited worldwide.
Dragonfly (2013) by Alain LaboileTHAT'S CONTEMPORARY
This virtual exhibition was brought together with 29 arts in progress
on the occasion of the Exhibition “Le temps retrouvé” visitable from November 30th 2018 to February 9th 2019, curated by Giovanni Pelloso.
Special graditudes to Julie Guiyot-Corteville author of the texts.
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