Pierre et Gilles are two french photographers who focus mainly on portraits. Rather than trying to show the personality of the people portrayed they use the people to create pieces of art. Their photographs often deal with the gay scene, war, old movie stars portraits and religion.
The photographs show the people portrayed like figurines and the images are full of glitter. Usually they portray the person in the middle of the image, not looking at the camera and on a "heroic" pose. The faces are perfectly lit. They use one or two lights to light the background and then a
Sur la plage abandonne, 94
Nuit de neige, 94
Le petit communiste, 90Every photograph is unique and the process of creations consists of photographing a model on a set with props, making a high quality print (on canvas style paper) and then painting on the print. An example of the process can be seen on the video.
The reason I picked these photographers is because their style is really different from my style and I wanted to experiment on something completely new.
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