Short Biography

I'm a French fine art and documentary photographer, currently living and working in Berlin (Germany).

Born in 1979, I spent my childhood in the French Alps (south-eastern France) first, then in the city of Poitiers (central-western France).

I'm entirely self-taught in photography. My (unrelated) studies took place in Poitiers (France), Wrocław (Poland) and then Paris.

I'm available for commissioned work or for taking part in a creative collaboration.

Artist Statement

As each project requires its own approach, every gallery starts with its own statement. But there are of course general trends in my approach to photography:

Simplicity. I want to see the world in the most direct, most non-lyrical and therefore most simple way: I'm not interested in making mannered or "iconic" pictures intended to please quickly (and probably forgotten as fast). That's why I favor a dose of distance and quietness, expecting from the viewer to spend time on a photograph.

Ambiguity. I feel close to documentary photography, though I try to avoid pure or "neutral" documents: I'm primarily interested in exploring and revealing layers of ambiguity contained in the world around, attempting to be as receptive and aware as possible, hopefully finding and expressing something insightful out of it.

Reality? I'm foremost interested in an art form that deals with reality. I'm fully aware that a photograph will never depict "the truth", but I still need this link with reality, with the world around, if only because it makes every picture essentially ambiguous and incomplete, and therefore interesting.

Thin Lines. While making photographs, I try to walk on the thin lines separating simplicity from blandness, visual interest from visual seduction, intellectual richness from overintellectualization, non-lyricism from contempt.

Contact

If you have any question, comment or request, just send me an email using the form on the dedicated contact page.

Flickr

You can watch on flickr some of my photographs.

While my website presents my official portfolio, my gallery on Flickr is a draft, a work-in-progress of my work.

Copyright Note

This website (or its individual elements - pictures & texts) can not be copied or reproduced without my express written permission.

All my work is © Copyright Jérémie Aubouin, all rights reserved