Fabrice Mabillot
Fabrice Mabillot combines classical aesthetics with current technology and an avowed desire for his models. He is only attracted to women who have something extraordinary about them and who strike him as emotionally or erotically dazzling (or both at once!).
Once he has found his models, he follows an unspoken protocol, setting them in a minimally decorated space, often his own apartment or a hotel room. This allows him to capture their full attention and concentrate their gaze. The apparent simplicity of his photographs is the result of many years of experiments with several cameras, including a Polaroid SX-70, a Pentax 6x7, a 4x5 view camera, a folding camera, and an iPhone, which all stimulate his creativity in different ways.
Fabrice Mabillot started out in photography in 1979 when he met his first love, Valérie. He was just sixteen when he began reading Photo magazine, which introduced him to the work of Jeanloup Sieff and David Hamilton. He was eager to begin photographing Valérie with a cheap but effective Zénith. At that time, his approach to photography was all about black and white and finding his own way, developing his negatives in the darkroom at the local youth club and printing them in his cellar. His real career as a photographer only began with the twenty-first century, however, after twenty years working as an art director on lingerie and women's fashion shoots – time well spent studying the photographers working for him, with perhaps a hint of jealousy. Breaking into their ranks seemed an unthinkable ambition until he simply decided to give it a go, shooting his own photographs.
His work took a more personal turn in 2008, drawing on his contacts to take test shots of the women he found attractive and stopping potential sitters in the street, his desire overcoming his natural shyness. His aesthetic quest, coupled with his search for ever more pure emotional encounters, took him to far-flung parts of the world where exotic beauties and the easy-going lifestyle lent him new inspiration.
In 2012, he began to turn away from his predominantly urban background to embrace nature, choosing more bucolic settings for his images, with new models adding their names to create new stories that remain to be told.
Edition GALERIE VEVAIS, the award-winning German publishing house, will begin offering art works from the artists whose books it publishes. KUNSTFABRIK will make great art available to everyone at sensible prices. We offer Pigment Prints, signed by the artists, printed on the finest Hahnemühle papers, in three different sizes at affordable prices:
20 x 30 cm for 110 EUR
(+shipment: 7,90 EUR (Germany) / 14,90 EUR (Europe) / 21,90 EUR (World)
30 x 40 cm for 190 EUR
(+shipment: 9,90 EUR (Germany) / 18,90 EUR (Europe) / 38,90 EUR (World)
40 x 60 cm for 300 EUR
(+shipment: 10,90 EUR (Germany) / 19,90 EUR (Europe) / 39,90 EUR (World)
We also offer them mounted on Aluminium under matte acrylic glass. Send us your request: service(at)galerievevais.de
