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From Pierre Soulages to Salman Rushdie,from François Hollande toVladimir Poutine, artists, politicians, actors or intellectuals have all sat down to face Stéphane Lavoué’s lense as comfortable in portraiture as in photojournalism, this regular in major international magazines was born in Mulhouse in 1976.
In 2002, after founding the Dolce Vita collective with 4 other photographers and starting a ten-... more >> Stéphane Lavoué - A Terre
From Pierre Soulages to Salman Rushdie,from François Hollande toVladimir Poutine, artists, politicians, actors or intellectuals have all sat down to face Stéphane Lavoué’s lense as comfortable in portraiture as in photojournalism, this regular in major international magazines was born in Mulhouse in 1976.
In 2002, after founding the Dolce Vita collective with 4 other photographers and starting a ten-year collaboration with the daily newspaper Libération, he moved from political reporting to the portrait on the back cover. He joined the MYOP agency in 2006 and then joined the Pasco&Co group of portrait artists in 2010.
Based in Penmarch for more than two years, Stéphane produced the series À terre ! as part of the La France Vue D’ici project, led by the Cetavoir et Médiapart association and exhibited in Paris and Sète in 2017.The resulting book is available from Editions Le Martinière.
In November 2016, he was awarded the National Photographic Commission Une jeunesse en France (CNAP - Ministère de la Culture). The book Jeunes Génération is available from Editions du Bec en l’Air. In December 2017, his first book was published:The Kingdom (Editions 77), a photographic storytelling project in a small kingdom in the United States: the North East Kingdom of Vermont.
Stéphane Lavoué is an artist photographer associated with the Comédie Française.
He produces the official portraits of the troupe and illustrations for the season’s programs.
He is the 2018 winner of the Nièpce Gens d’Images Prize and a finalist for the 2018 Leica Oskar Barnack Prize.
In 2019, he was the photographer chosen to produce the 10th Pernod-Ricard photographic commission, which will be presented at Paris-Photo in November 2019.