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JEAN-FRANCOIS LEPAGE

JEAN-FRANCOIS LEPAGE

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ABOUT JEAN-FRANCOIS LEPAGE

Jean Francois Lepage (b.1960) is a french photographer based in Paris. His first exhibition was in 1983 but his first photographs appear in Depeche Mode Magazine in 1981.

During the 90s, Lepage experimented with both painting and photography within fashion photography. Featured in numerous international magazines and publications, in 2013 Lepage highlighted the 28th Hyéres International Festival of Fashion Photography.

In 2015 Lepage released his first monograph featuring his complete photographic works, Moonlight Zoo. Untill then he devoted entirely to fine art, photography, and painting. Lepage feels more comfortable with painting, as “Painting is a universal language, just like music”, he says.

Jean-Francois Lepage
Dovile – 7000 magazine, 2013
Jean-Francois Lepage
Self-Portrait with Dorothée – Vogue UK, 1996
Jean-Francois Lepage
Claudia – New-York Woman magazine, 1987
Jean-Francois Lepage
Lauren – It’s Rouge magazine, 2003

RECYCLING PROJECT

His biggest body of work, Recycling Project, reinterprets film, and photographic prints.

PRELUDE

Made of three parts, in 2017 he completed the first Opus, Prelude. The Recycling project brought him exhibitions in Paris, Amsterdam, Brugge, Liege, Instanbul, and London.

ZOMBIE

The second Opus, Zombie, presented in 2019 at the Unseen Amsterdam, shows a selection of hand-painted chromogenic and silver gelatine prints, was

Jean-Francois Lepage
Prelude – Recycle 8, 2015 –
Jean-Francois Lepage
Recycle 12, 2014 – Prelude
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Prelude – Recycle 17, 2014 –
Jean-Francois Lepage
Renaissance, 2019 – Zombie
Jean-Francois Lepage
Carnage, 2018 – Zombie
Jean-Francois Lepage
Renaissance (II), 2019 – Zombie

Since he is attracted by the mysteries of death as a celebration of life, the name Zombie probably recalls his childhood’s readings of novels by Howard Phillips Lovecraft and Edgar Allan Poe. It probably also comes from his daughter’s recent obsession with gothic.

With ‘Zombie’, he found some forgotten sensations of the unknown and a sense of play.

Jean-Francois Lepage

OPIUM

Ultimately, the third part, Opium, (2019-20121) is in honor of the French poet Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) on the occasion of the bicentenary of his birth.

Jean-François Lepage is represented in Budapest by TOBE Gallery

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