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FRÉDÉRIC LECLOUX PHOTOGRAPHER
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frédéric leclouxphotographer
Biography
Born in 1972 in Brussels, Belgium. Resides in Nyons, Drôme, France.Self-taught photographer. Graduated with honours from the École nationale
supérieure de la Photographie d’Arles (June 2016).Associate editor at Le Bec en l’air in Marseille.A workshop teacher at photo.circle in Kathmandu and at the Rencontres d’Arles.A recipient of the Leverhulme Trust Artist in residence grant in 2016
for a residence at the University of Nottingham in 2017.Frédéric Lecloux’s work is distributed by VU’ Agency in Paris since 2003
and published by Le Bec en l’air.
Main series
Nepal-Qatar, the Void and the Fullness (2016…)Le Bord de l’éclipse (2002…)Explanation, peace, forgetfulness (2013-2015)Epiphanies of the everyday (1994-2013)Brumes à venir (2008-2012)L’Usure du Monde (2004-2005)
Statement
“A photograph. Not just an interesting scene, to be frozen onto a surface: a photograph.
One of the images that exist in me, though I don’t know where, or with what features, to the point where I get a vibration in the real, and the framing scintillates so that the image takes on flesh and matches up with its internal trace, still latent a second earlier.
Except that ordinarily the realness stops vibrating well before I act. Faced with what could become a photograph, I need time. To observe necessity intensifying. To understand. To doubt. To let the image get infused with the knowing. Not to accept it being infused only with a flash of vision. The flash is essential, but I can’t turn it into a photograph other than by postponing the gesture of execution until life reveals the kind of flash it actually is. It’s often a fake; in which case, best do nothing. The innocent photographer? That’s not me. I’d like it to be the case, but it’s not. After all that, if I’m not dissolved in the confrontation, well then yes, I’ll take the photograph.
What follows is a time of patience, worry, excitement, uncertainty as to whether the camera saw the same thing as me. Not to mention the randomness of chemistry. But I gradually slip into insouciance, and soon stop thinking about it. Then one day the film comes back from the lab in the post. I spread it out on the light table. Among the images that say just what they say, I seek a familiar form. An irradiation. When I find it, I’m raised up again, with a flash still more decisive than at the moment of pressing the shutter, by a vibration, a trace, a framing of the real, previously recognised, now sanctioned by a sprinkling of silver salts on nine square centimetres of polyester.
A photograph. I see it as an organ transplant. And I immediately recompose myself. Without even having had time to feel the wound, I’m healing myself. Less infirm now.”
Translated from French by John Doherty
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Monographs
Nepal, Le Bec en l’air, November 2017Epiphanies of the everyday
Texts and photographs.
La grande Route par tous les temps, Arnaud Bizalion, July 2017Sonnets and photographs.
Brumes à venir, Le Bec en l’air, 2012À la recherche de la Belgique
Text and photographs.
L’Usure du Monde, Le Bec en l’air, 2008Hommage à Nicolas Bouvier
Texts and photographs, preface by Éliane Bouvier, postface by Christian Caujolle.
Lentement vers l’Asie, Glénat, 2006Travel narrative.
Katmandou 2058, La Renaissance du Livre, 2003Photographs, text by Gérard Toffin (cnrs).
Books in collaboration
Étonnamment étonnée, Le Bec en l’air, 2013Une description de la Friche la Belle de Mai avec de délicats morceaux de fiction dedans
50 photographs with a text by Arno Bertina.
Lit National, Le Bec en l’air, collection Collatéral, 201325 photographs for a text by Joy Sorman.
Le simulacre du printemps, Le Bec en l’air, collection Collatéral, 200824 photographs from the series Marthe with a text by Ingrid Thobois.
Collective & commissioned books
Arno Bertina, Classiques Garnier, coll. Écrivains francophones d’aujourd’hui, 2018« Par où deux choses travaillent ensemble. Notes sur le rapport texte/image chez Arno Bertina,
prises à la lecture de deux livres, restituées à la lumière d’un troisième. »
Text, for an essay directed by Aurélie Adler.
Bonne année, Le Bec en l’air, 2017« Bonne année ! »
Text about the new year’s greeting cards of some French photographers:
Denis Brihat, Robert Doisneau, Jean-Pierre Sudre, Jean Dieuzaide, Willy Ronis & Izis.
Francis Jolly, Nous voulons voyager, Tribew, 2016« Voir le Monde »
Text for a personal interpretation of Francis Jolly’s series Les Mouches.
Collective, Nouveaux Regards. Identités Parcours & Mémoire, Le Bec en l’air, 201310 photographic portraits of artists.
Feuilleton N°6, janvier 2013“Qui l’encre, qui le texte ? »
Text with a portfolio of the series Brumes à venir.
Nicolas Bouvier, espace et écriture, Zoé, 2010« L’Usure du Monde »
Text edited by Hervé Guyader. Papers from the eponymous conference, Brest, 2008.
Writings about photography[blog.fredericlecloux.com]
To write for…Critical writing about other photographer’s work.
A conversation with…photographers or artists who I like or who challenge me.
Conscientious photography MagazineTranslation of Jörg M. Colberg’s papers about photography from English to French.
[Conscientious Photography Magazine]
Multimedia
Figures with absent landscapes, 201717 e-kus inspired by the photographic albums of some Nepali families in Nottingham.
A project funded by the Leverhulme Trust Artist in Residence Grant 2016.
[fredericlecloux.com/nottingham]
Bus 72, 2015-2017Multimedia variations on a series of photographs by Vincent Josse.
Ni vitesse ni bruit, 2015A 5 minute multimedia work created at the invitation of the Élysée Museum in Lausanne
for La Nuit des images, revisiting twenty years of personal work.
Soundtrack by musician Stijn Norga and Foley artist Céline Bernard.
Le Bord de l’éclipse, 2015An 8 minute film about the series Le Bord de l’éclipse, directed by Natacha Cyrulnik.
The e-ku projectBased upon the classic haiku, a Japanese short poem of 17 moras aiming to evoke
rather than to describe an emotion, the e-ku is a 17 second multimedia work
that can combines text, sound and image.
[fredericlecloux.com/eku]
University
2018
Nepal-Qatar : the Void and the fullnessSeminar “Refugees in Literature, Film, Art, and Media: perspective on the past and present”
University of Liverpool (United Kingdom)
Nepal-Qatar : the Void and the fullnessSeminar “Photography as documentary practice”
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva (Switzerland)
2017
Artiste in residenceA residence funded by the Leverhulme Trust Artist in Residence Grant 2016
for the projet “Figures with absent landscapes” with the Nepali community of Nottingham.
University of Nottingham (United Kingdom)
Keynote speaker11th “Liverpool Travel Seminar: Travel, Text and Image”
University of Liverpool, Liverpool Hope University & John Moores University (United Kingdom)
Nepal-Qatar : the Void and the fullnessWorkshop: “Circuits of Labour, Obligation and Debt:
International Migrants, Their Families, and the Migration Industry in Nepal”
University of Oxford, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology (United Kingdom)
2013
Photography, a pretext to address the roadWorkshop “Re-enacting the Silk Road: Silk Road Representations: Travels, Texts & Images”
University of Nottingham (United Kingdom)
2008
L’Usure du MondeConference “Nicolas Bouvier, espace et écriture”
Faculté Victor Segalen, Brest (France)
Main exhibitions
2018
Epiphanies of the Everyday / Explanation, peace, forgetfulnessFestival Présence(s) Photographie, Montélimar (France)
2017
Figures with absent landscapesUniversity of Nottingham (Great Britain)
L’Usure du MondeRencontres des cinémas d’Europe, Aubenas (France)
Nepal-Qatar: the Void and the FullnessItinerant exhibition and lectures-projections, with Amnesty International (France)
2016
Népal-Qatar: the Void and the FullnessLecture-projection, Niépce Museum, Chalon-sur-Saône (France)
L’Usure du MondeAlliance Française, Kathmandu (Nepal)
2015
Epiphanies of the everydayPhoto Kathmandu Festival (Nepal)
Ni Vitesse ni bruitRetrospective projection, Musée de l’Élysée, Lausanne (Switzerland)
Brumes à venir, MartheLeica Store, Lille (France)
2013
Epiphanies of the everydayRetrospective, Alliance Française, Kathmandu (Nepal)
2011
E-ku Projection, Les Nuits Photographiques, Paris (France)
Brumes à venirTransphotographiques, Lille (France)
L’Usure du MondeRencontres photographiques, Lorient (France)
2008
L’Usure du MondePhoto Phnom Penh Festival (Cambodia)
2007
L’Usure du MondeFrench cultural centres in Islamabad, Lahore & Karachi (Pakistan), Kabul (Afghanistan),
Tehran (Iran), Belgrade & Niš (Serbia), Skoplje (Macedonia)
2004-2008
Katmandou 2058Fnac Galleries (France and Belgium)
2004
Katmandou 2058Le Botanique, Brussels (Belgium)
Awards, residence & grant
2016-2017
Figures with absent landscapesLeverhulme Trust Artist in residence grant
University of Nottingham (Great Britain)
2015
Nepal-Qatar: the Void and the FullnessDocumentary photography grant, Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Paris
Le Bord de l’éclipseFinalist, Leica Oskar Barnack award
2010
Brumes à venirFinalist, Scam award
2007
Epiphanies of the EverydayFinalist, Académie des Beaux-Arts award, Paris
2006
Kathmandu 2058Finalist, Scam award
2003
Kathmandu 2058Finalist, Leica Oskar Barnack award
Performance
In the shade of a doubtCreated in Marseilles in December 2013 at the invitation of La Friche la Belle de mai,
In the shade of a doubt is a 40 minutes dialogue between an analog slideshow
by Frédéric Lecloux and a live soundtrack by Foley artist Céline Bernard.
Collections
Fnac (Niepce Museum, Chalon-sur-Saône),
Leica France,
Private collections.
Press
Géo, Photo Nouvelles, Le Monde Diplomatique, L’Alpe, Réponses Photo, Le Figaro, La Croix,
Philosophie Magazine, Ulysse (France);
Leica Fotografie International, Lettre International (Germany);
Nepali Times, Republica, ECS (Nepal);
D (Italy).
Photographs
cover: Nepal, 2013, series “Explanation, peace, forgetfulness”
next page: Santosh & Rakesh, Ilam, Nepal, 2011, series “Epiphanies of the everyday”.
Frédéric Leclouxles blaches, 26110 nyons, france
+33 6 46 68 52 99
(blog.)fredericlecloux.com
