Weekend Portfolio: Alain Laboile
Images and Text by Alain Laboile
Alain laboile's work is a sociological witness of our passage on Earth” living on the edge of the world.
A passage that the artist decided to mark by portraying joys and sorrows of his six children raised in an old house in the countryside near Bordeaux where they are free to play outdoors, far from omnipresent consumerism’s logics.
Cartier Bresson’s wry and objective invisible precision here gives way to Laboile’s equally invisible subjective precision all the more richly informed by paternal affection and understanding.
Laboile catches the essence and the fugacity of a childhood made up of exploration, freedom and innocence without interfering. The soft monochromatism which distinguishes Laboile’s work manifests itself in a timeless, essential and universal atmosphere where his subjects are captured in spontaneous poses.
The photographer invites us to enjoy his personal enchanted world where his intimacy and his emotions give us back the infinite shades of a suspended time that here flows slowly, kept in an ongoing album that doesn’t want to come to an end.
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”.
Alain Laboile's work has since been exhibited around the world and he recently published a second book with Kehrer Verlag : "Summer of the fawn".
To view more of Alain Laboile’s work, visit his website or instagram.
