New Still Lifes by Jean-Loup Lafont

Poésie, poetry, des mots en français, d’autres en anglais…Revigoré par mes escapades au pays des vents violents, je reviens de la mer du Nord avec de nouvelles ambitions. De nouveaux reves, de nouveaux défis. A commencer par la volonté de mettre en ligne certaines pages de mes cahiers quadrillés Seyès. Surtout, n’hésitez pas à m’encourager. [...]

Still Life Photographer and Artist in France

New Still Lifes by Jean-Loup Lafont

Belge, pour quelques jours encore. A chercher près de la mer des coins où photographier loin des regards *Marcel et les autres petits zombies apportés de Paris. Créativement en ce moment, c’est la panne. Je ne sais pas comment vous vivez ce timide printemps, moi, c’est voisin de zéro. Zéro vente. Zéro contact. Zéro follower. Et surtout zéro [...]

Still Life Photographer and Artist in France

New Still Lifes by Jean-Loup Lafont

One morning I was scribbling on Scotch tape. I wanted to create a hunter of followers.  A guy who’s prepared to do anything for a bunch of incoming links. The problem was that just as I took the photo, the sun came out. Enough in any case to reveal a KGB spy in the image. [...]

Still Life Photographer and Artist in France

New Still Lifes by Jean-Loup Lafont

4 February 2013. It was Christmas. I was wrapping a present when I thought that personally I’d love to be given a multitude of pencils. Which is where I got the idea of taking a photo of those I already own. The Rexel Cumberlands, the Prismacolors and other Schwan Stabilos that take me on such [...]

Still Life Photographer and Artist in France

New Still Lifes by Jean-Loup Lafont

Saturday 2 February 2013. In 2004, when I was modelling The Ladykiller (above), it was winter. Not much life in the wasteland around my studio. I spent long periods dreaming. I drank litres of coffee. The days slipped by peacefully. I dozed by the wood-burning stove. I listened to The Doors. Is this happiness? Buddha [...]

Still Life Photographer and Artist in France

New Still Lifes by Jean-Loup Lafont

‘A photo’, Willy Ronis wrote in Ce Jour-là (Folio/Mercure de France, 2010), ‘is a snapshot moment, but it’s also the story of a day’. Similarly, with my Veiled Doll (above), I recall my suburban studio, the monthly lunches on the 13th, the friends I had then. And through this photo, made for one of the [...]

Still Life Photographer and Artist in France

New Still Lifes by Jean-Loup Lafont

I bought the bear in Paris, in a studio where people came to learn to paint on wood. The sales assistant was reading a book by Paul Auster. While I was paying, she was taken aback when I asked her if she had ‘other black animals’. ‘Why’, she accused me, ‘do you only like black [...]

Still Life Photographer and Artist in France

New Still Lifes by Jean-Loup Lafont

Saturday 16 January 2013, eleven o’clock in the morning. Caught between beiges and browns the photo Branch and Dead Leaves (above) is like my new installations, a bouquet of melancholy thoughts. Worked a lot on a new blog at Blogger, where I finally chose a background of a rain-wet window-pane to show off my still [...]

Still Life Photographer and Artist in France

New Still Lifes by Jean-Loup Lafont

Paris, Tuesday 22 January 2013, ten o’clock in the evening. Strange fit of depression, yesterday, at the end of the day. Standing at the window I was looking at the roofs. Empty, at rock bottom… The crisis lifted after a few lines from Julien Green’s diaries. Always the same volume. Number X: ‘The Bottle in [...]

Still Life Photographer and Artist in France

New Still Lifes by Jean-Loup Lafont

Paris, Monday 21 January 2013, nine-thirty in the morning. A unique moment, yesterday, Sunday: a few minutes of happiness when you feel in harmony with the world. I was listening to Transmissions III, electro music I found in Berlin at the Urban Outfitters store. Night was falling on a snowy Paris. In front of me, [...]

Still Life Photographer and Artist in France