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.
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
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.
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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