Best known for portraits of young people created for his “Modern Lovers” series, photographer Stéphane Gizard’s gentle, kindly eye manages to capture the beauty and fragility of his subjects, which have included many celebrities and strangers. His work reveals their sensuality and brings out the expression of a truth; an intimate questioning. In parallel to working closely with the press and the advertising industry, Stéphane has spent ten years photographing across-section of 17-20 year olds; from his perspective the defining and decisive phase of one's life sitting at the end of adolescence and at the beginning of adulthood. A period of self-reflection and fragility.

Why youth and intimacy?

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I think that's everyone's fantasy: to stay young and look at what escapes us so quickly: the beauty of those faces, of those young bodies. Youth is so fleeting that it is a kind of drama. Once the mourning is over, in my case, being close to young people, watching them, discussing and photographing them is a kind of bandage...

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After talking a bit of intimacy, the fragility of these subjects… sometimes do you think you are doing an accidental self portrait through these subjects?

Good question but unfortunately I don't have an answer. in any case I project desire there... maybe mine ;)

sea or mountain?

 

definitely sea