Laurent Elie Badessi Bio

LAURENT ELIE BADESSI

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Born in France in 1964, Laurent Elie Badessi belongs to a family of three generations of photographers, which enabled him from an early age to explore and appreciate the art and techniques of photography.

After studying Communication and Photography, he wrote his M.A. thesis entitled "Ethnological Fashion Photography" at the University of Paris VIII.

Using the technique of "Negotiated Photography" Badessi spent several months in Niger, Africa taking photographs of the indigenous tribes. For this project he was awarded first prize in the 1988 Fuji Color, VSD, France-Inter Adventure Grant and won the nomination for the Humanity Photo Award in China in 2004.

Badessi started his professional career as a Fashion Photographer in Paris and abroad, before moving to New York in 1995 where he concentrated his work on his fine art photography and special projects for luxury brands.

Skin, a book of his images on the human form in harmony with nature, was internationally released in 2000 by Edition Stemmle/Abbeville Press.

Sondra Gilman, Founder and former Chairperson of the Department of Photography at the Whitney Museum wrote the introduction of the book. Internationally recognized personalities and artists, such as Andres Serrano, Susan Sontag, Larry Rivers, Anne Rice, Antoni Tàpies, Pedro Almodóvar, César, Peter Beard, Merce Cunningham, Karl Lagerfeld, Philip Glass, Marcel Marceau, Pierre Cardin, John Waters and Robert Wilson, dedicated personal quotes to accompany the photographs.

Laurent Elie Badessi's images have appeared in prestigious magazines and are part of highly regarded private and public collections. In 1996, he received a grant from the French Ministry of Culture for his Paris exhibition Metamorphoses.

Several solo exhibitions of Badessi's work have appeared in New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Miami, Milan, Rome, Florence, Paris, Barcelona, Dubai and Monaco.

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LAURENT ELIE BADESSI Images Bio Born in France in 1964, Laurent Elie Badessi belongs to a family of three generations of photographers, which enabled him from an early age to explore and appreciate the art and techniques of photography. After studying Communication and Photography, he wrote his M.A. thesis entitled "Ethnological Fashion Photography" at the University of Paris VIII. Using the technique of "Negotiated Photography" Badessi spent several months in Niger, Africa taking photographs of the indigenous tribes. For this project he was awarded first prize in the 1988 Fuji Color, VSD, France-Inter Adventure Grant and won the nomination for the Humanity Photo Award in China in 2004. Badessi started his professional career as a Fashion Photographer in Paris and abroad, before moving to New York in 1995 where he concentrated his work on his fine art photography and special projects for luxury brands. Skin, a book of his images on the human form in harmony with nature, was internationally released in 2000 by Edition Stemmle/Abbeville Press. Sondra Gilman, Founder and former Chairperson of the Department of Photography at the Whitney Museum wrote the introduction of the book. Internationally recognized personalities and artists, such as Andres Serrano, Susan Sontag, Larry Rivers, Anne Rice, Antoni Tàpies, Pedro Almodóvar, César, Peter Beard, Merce Cunningham, Karl Lagerfeld, Philip Glass, Marcel Marceau, Pierre Cardin, John Waters and Robert Wilson, dedicated personal quotes to accompany the photographs. Laurent Elie Badessi's images have appeared in prestigious magazines and are part of highly regarded private and public collections. In 1996, he received a grant from the French Ministry of Culture for his Paris exhibition Metamorphoses. Several solo exhibitions of Badessi's work have appeared in New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Miami, Milan, Rome, Florence, Paris, Barcelona, Dubai and Monaco.