ALAIN LABOILE
BIOGRAPHY
Born on May 1, 1968 in Bordeaux, France, Alain Laboile is a photographer and father of six.
In 2004, as he needed to put together a portfolio of his work as a sculptor, he acquired a camera, and thus developped a taste for macrophotography, spurred by his passion for entomology.
Later on, he pointed his lens towards his growing family which became his major subject, be it in a realistic depiction of their atypical lifestyle in
"La Famille", or in bizarre stagings around a pond in "Réflexion autour du bassin".
EXHIBITIONS
2014 Group show at the Centro Cultural Universitario "La Garza", in Pachuca, Mexico.
Solo show at the Librairie Photographique Le 29, in Paris, France.
Group show "I Adore Photographs" at the JIRO MIURA GALLERY, Tokyo, with
Jeanloup Sieff, Jock Sturges, William Ropp...
Group show for VIPA 2013 at the Kunstnetzwerk gallery, in Austria.
2013 Solo show at the dnj Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.
Exhibition at the Delhi Photo Festival, New Delhi.
Solo show at the JIRO MIURA GALLERY, Tokyo.
Group show at Art Osaka, in Japan.
2012 Solo show at the Centre Communal d'Actions Sociales, in Bordeaux, France.
Exhibition at the Angkor Photo Festival in Siem Reap, Cambodia.
2011 Exhibition at the Salon de la Photo in Paris.
2010 Exhibition at the MAP of Toulouse.
2008 Exhibition at the Salon de la Photo in Paris.
PURCHASES
2014 Permanent collection of the French Museum of Photography, in Bièvres (Essonne).
GALLERIES
Alain Laboile is represented :
in the US by the dnj Gallery
Santa Monica, CA 90404
dnjgallery.net
in Japan by the JIRO MIURA GALLERY
Tokyo, 103-0011
jiromiuragallery.com
PUBLICATIONS
• Waiting for the postman ; ed. KnowWare, coll. « Voire naître le talent », 2012.
LECTURES
• Alain Laboile, Jock Sturges (February 2013). University of Washington School of
Art, Seattle, WA.
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