Geoffroy de Boismenu is known for his work as a fashion photographer, his portraits of stars and his publicity campaigns. In recent years, he has simultaneously devoted himself to a parallel quest for a more personal form of expression, more contemplative and emotional. Inspired by what he calls the erotic spillover of Rodin and Bataille, he tries to apply their ideas to photography by transcending the crudity and realism of the medium. His "Erotic Portraits" are antidotes to stereortypes because they claim their dose of intimacy. Far from taking cheesecake shots, the photographer explores in his own manner, esthetic and fragmented, nature and the everyday. His first book, Libenter, is a meticulous and discrete look at his family home in the Bourbonnais, a tender portrait of his parents and his family. More recently in La Conversation, he abandons the body to imerse himself in the outsized but liberating desertscape Arizona.
2005 : Bound, Paris 2005 : Colette, Paris 2004 : Studio 58, Paris 2004 : Claska Hotel, Tokyo
Collective Shows : Paris, London, New York, Barcelona, Budapest, Monte Carlo, Biarritz, Bologna, Roma, Tokyo …
