THE ARTIST BEHIND THE WORK 

EUROPEAN PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS (EPA)  – Professional France 

Awards received for my 2 Art Series  in the Professional Portrait and People section :

• Art Series “A Doll Essence” for People category: EPA Gallery People
• Art Series “Disco Chic” for Portrait category : EPA Gallery Portrait

EXHIBITION PH21 GALLERY – Budapest – Hungary

Exhibition of 3 portraits from my series  “Disco Chic” at PH21 Gallery Budapest – Selected following a competition for the “Significant Colour”

 Fine Art Print 30x40cm –

There are two kinds of photographs with respect to the significance of their use of colours. On the one hand, ever since colour film technology became widely available, colour has become the default in most photographic practices.

That is, some photographs are in colour not because their colours bear some special significance (compared, for instance, to their possible black and white counterparts) but simply because the available film or digital technology has long turned colour to be the common method of capturing photographic images. We may think of these photographs as colour by default.

On the other hand, colours are often central to the meaning of photographs for their emphatic, symbolic, psychological, social, compositional, etc. significance. These photographs would not work in black and white the same way or they would not work at all; that they are in colour is not merely a technological given, rather, it is an integral, formative and significant aspect of their photographic meaning. We may think of these photographs as colour by significance.

EXHIBITIONS, SAINT-GERMAIN-EN-LAYE

BEST PHOTOGRAPHY AWARD, AWARD BEST PORTRAIT PROFESSIONAL CATEGORY

EXHIBITION PRAXIS GALLERY, PHOTO CENTER: Minneapolis, US – POETIC STORYTELLING

A print from my series “Re-enchant the World” for the Poetic Storytelling thematic

LONDON PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS : Winner Fine Art Photography – Category Professionnal

Winner for my series “A Doll Essence” – Fine Art Photography in the Professional section

Platinium Award.

PUBLICATION LENS MAGAZINE: Out of the Box – April issue 103

Selected by the Lens MAGAZINE for April : Out of the Box

Collection Series “A Doll Essence“

EXHIBITION LOCATION: MFA’s Online Curve Gallery

Work selected for MFA’s Reflections 2023 by juror Denise Carson. Out of  610 total entries by 198 artists, I’m the one of the 50 artists selected for the online exhibitions.

Introducing Reflections

Reflections can appear in many different forms – they can be both literal or metaphorical. Reflections found in shop windows, still ponds, or on faces in mirrors can surprise and delight. The physical nature of light reflecting changes appearances and reveals unexpected sensations. Reflections can also be internal; emotional, cerebral, or spiritual, bringing back memories or causing new ways of thinking that could change the world or just stay personal. Maryland Federation of Art (MFA) asked artists to show us what reflection means to them. Entry was open to all artists residinginternationally. All original 2D or 3D artwork in any media was eligible for this online show. Works selected by the juror will be on display in MFA’s online gallery, Curve Gallery, from April 15 – May 31, 2023. Exhibition Chairs: Richard Niewerth and Wil Scott. 

EXHIBITION PH21 GALLERY – Budapest – Hungary

Exhibition of 2 portraits from my series  “A Doll Essence” at PH21 Gallery Budapest – Selected following a competition for the “Personality : Contemporary Portraiture”

 Fine Art Print 40x60cm –

To highlight the least represented aspect of a woman: adolescence
The starting point: a doll is either a baby or a woman and there is an in-between time, a very particular moment in a woman’s life when she is not quite a child nor quite a woman.
A moment when a war rages between the past and the future. A moment when she is both in construction today of what she will be tomorrow.
The play on words is thus put forward: a teenage doll, « a doll essence ».

PUBLICATION FEDERATION PHOTOGRAPHIQUE DE FRANCE

Publication of selected portraits from my series “DISCO CHIC“

I wanted to recreate an original atmosphere of the Disco Chic world with colors and bubbles to celebrate the party. The disco ball head to invite the guest to understand that we all have disco music in our heads, it’s the celebration to the music, it’s life!

Creative staging of the Disco theme by highlighting :

• the movement
• the colors
• the light
• the party (disco ball)

The goal is to present an original creative image using studio lighting techniques and advanced techniques such as light painting.

EXHIBITION MANEGE ROYAL – Saint Germain en laye – France

Exhibition of my series  “A Doll Essence” at the Manège Royal – Salon Photographique at Saint Germain en laye, France.

Presentation and sponsorised by the Mayor of the city.

For the theme “The side step” – 9 dibonds on metal fine art print 30x45cm –

To highlight the least represented aspect of a woman: adolescence
The starting point: a doll is either a baby or a woman and there is an in-between time, a very particular moment in a woman’s life when she is not quite a child nor quite a woman.
A moment when a war rages between the past and the future. A moment when she is both in construction today of what she will be tomorrow.
The play on words is thus put forward: a teenage doll, « a doll essence ».

PUBLICATION ART VUE MAGAZINE – Bruxelles

Publication of 1 selected photo from my series  “A Doll Essence” into the Art Vue Magazine

To highlight the least represented aspect of a woman: adolescence
The starting point: a doll is either a baby or a woman and there is an in-between time, a very particular moment in a woman’s life when she is not quite a child nor quite a woman.
A moment when a war rages between the past and the future. A moment when she is both in construction today of what she will be tomorrow.
The play on words is thus put forward: a teenage doll, « a doll essence ».

PORTRAIT NOMINEE

Nominee into 2 Professional Categories “Portrait” and “Fine Art“

For my series “A Doll Essence“

To highlight the least represented aspect of a woman: adolescence
The starting point: a doll is either a baby or a woman and there is an in-between time, a very particular moment in a woman’s life when she is not quite a child nor quite a woman.
A moment when a war rages between the past and the future. A moment when she is both in construction today of what she will be tomorrow.
The play on words is thus put forward: a teenage doll, « a doll essence ».

PORTRAIT WINNER

Publication in PHOTO magazine from January to March 2023 for the “WORLD’S GREATEST PHOTO CONTEST 2022”.

Winner in the Portrait section out of a selection of more than 17 000 photos.

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FPF – Exhibiting author – Madness series

Photo Emergente 2021 Collection n°21

About FPF 

The Photographic Federation of France is more than 8500 Photographers, spread in overseas and all over France in hundreds of Photo-Clubs.

Madness is my series created end of 2021 during the Covid-19, a cinematic series with studio at home.

FPF – Exhibiting author – Madness series

Photo Emergente 2021 Collection n°21

About FPF 

The Photographic Federation of France is more than 8500 Photographers, spread in overseas and all over France in hundreds of Photo-Clubs.

Madness is my series created end of 2021 during the Covid-19, a cinematic series with studio at home.

Honorable Mention

Re-enchant the World Series selected by the International Photography Awards in the Professional Fine Art category with the Honorable Mention for all my works.

About IPA

The International Photography Awards™ conducts an annual competition for professional, amateur, and student photographers on a global scale, creating one of the most ambitious and comprehensive photo competitions in the photography world today.

Shortlisted

For the 3rd year in a row, BBA Gallery is collaborating with Berlin Photo Week to celebrate international fine art photography. BBA Gallery has selected 50 photographers from our international open call for the BBA Photography Prize, all of which can be seen from the 2nd to 4th September at Arena Berlin.

Exhibition planned

Beyond the madness of the world; this brand new artist Cyrille wants to re-enchant the world using an open window on the world of Magritte.

Through his very pictorial technique, he invites you to poetry and dreams with this enchanted series.

No doubt this emerging French artist is going to delight and surprise our world.

Feel free to explore the works with your phone, bring the photos to life, and find Cyrille’s artistic universe at Arlency.com.

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Press article

Exhibition planned

Beyond the madness of the world; this brand new artist Cyrille wants to re-enchant the world using an open window on the world of Magritte.

Through his very pictorial technique, he invites you to poetry and dreams with this enchanted series.

No doubt this emerging French artist is going to delight and surprise our world.

Feel free to explore the works with your phone, bring the photos to life, and find Cyrille’s artistic universe at Arlency.com.

See the collection

Exposition prévue

A travers ce thème, j’ai effectué plusieurs recherches sur le pictural dans le monde de la photographie et principalement dans le monde de la peinture. La peinture est une source inépuisable d’inspiration artistique.

Le peintre qui m’est instinctivement venu à l’esprit pour ce thème est René Magritte. Ce peintre apporte tous les éléments du rêve, du pictural, du décalé et de l’humour.

Ne disait-il pas lui-même “L’art de peindre est un art de penser“, une vérité absolue qui s’applique à notre travail et à notre approche de la photographie.

Exhibition planned

Beyond the madness of the world; this brand new artist Cyrille wants to re-enchant the world using an open window on the world of Magritte.

Through his very pictorial technique, he invites you to poetry and dreams with this enchanted series.

No doubt this emerging French artist is going to delight and surprise our world.

Feel free to explore the works with your phone, bring the photos to life, and find Cyrille’s artistic universe at Arlency.com.

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FRANCE PHOTOGRAPHIE – PUBLICATION FEB.22

3 photos from my series “Re-enchant the World” selected and published in the Author section under the name “Red Dress”.

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LE LAURÉAT par le Magazine PHOTO

Coup de maître pour Cvrille avec cette photo réalisée cet été, en juillet 2021, à Oeiras au Portugal.

Un projet personnel auquel il songe depuis près d’un an déjà lorsqu’il la met en scène
en collaboration avec la modèle.

Leur idée : plonger ensemble dans l’univers de David Hockney. 1 854 km plus tard, dans la piscine de la modèle, ils touchaient au but avec l’aide de Linda, et de leurs accessoires. la bouée flamant rose et un ballon de baudruche en quise de bubble gum.

Fils d’artiste peintre, photographe depuis l’âge de 14 ans, Cyrille a depuis créé son agence, Arlency, et fait de l’image son métier. Portraitiste, il envisage son travail artistique comme « de la peinture numérique » avec pour inspiration « la créativité et l’univers » de Jean-Paul Gaultier, « le regard des modèles » d’Arthur Elgort, et bien sûr tout David Hockney.»

À la place d’un pinceau j’ai un appareil photo et je construis mes œuvres en fonction de mes inspirations du moment et de l’histoire que je veux raconter ». De bout en bout il assure la direction artistique jusqu’à aboutir au «tableau photographique » parfait.

«Il y a toujours une touche d’improvisation avec une émulsion créative exponentielle, c’est ce moment d’excitation que ‘affectionne tout particulièrement. Quand tous ces ingrédients sont réunis et que l’on tient la bonne photo». Celle qui fera rêver. En 2022, on pourra découvrir ses expositions à Londres et à Saint-Germain-en-Laye (en avril) avec sa dernière série inspirée des œuvres de René Magritte : Ré-enchanter le monde.

C’est réussi !

« Photographier c’est peindre avec la lumière », tel est l’angle par lequel l’artiste a choisi d’aborder son œuvre. Fils d’une artiste peintre, l’oeil de ce photographe tend inlassablement vers le pictural, invitant le spectateur à réfléchir et à observer chaque détail de ses tableaux. 

Il donne ainsi vie à un poème de l’artiste Christine Blin

PATIENCE DES JOURS

Chaque fleur
En sa saison
Quelques leurres
Et la raison
Apporteront le privilège
De la patience des jours

Exposition au festival des rencontres d’Arles via la Fédération France Photographique avec une sélection de mon travail personnel sur le thème de “La folie ordinaire” dans la section “Photo émergente”.

Mise à l’honneur dans le portfolio principal du Magazine de la Fédération France Photographique numéro 275 pour la réalisation de mon travail personnel sur le thème de “La folie ordinaire” dans la section “Photo émergente”.

La photo émergente

Nombreux sont les photographes qui s’interrogent sur le concept de « photo émergente ».

Qu’est-ce que la « photo émergente » ?

« Émerger », c’est « sortir d’un milieu et apparaître à la surface », ce qui, en matière de photo, revient à prendre en compte les tendances récentes.

La photo émergente, est-ce de la « photo contemporaine » ? Oui, si on entend par là une photographie d’aujourd’hui, mais pas vraiment, si on considère la dimension conceptuelle qui s’attache à cette notion où – je caricature à peine – l’enrobage avec des mots ferait presque passer la photo au second plan.

La photo émergente, est-ce alors de la « photo créative » ? À l’évidence, oui, puisqu’il s’agit d’emprunter des voies nouvelles ou de « revisiter » des pratiques anciennes.

Alain Pruvot

Rédacteur en chef de France Photographie