Stéphane Tourné

Photographer for 30 years now, I have had the chance to live more than 20 years in Africa and California, to photograph presidents, film actors, famous and less famous musicians, I have had the chance to work for large international brands as well as for very small ones, sometimes in collaboration with the biggest agencies in the world, I have had the chance to produce reports and advertisements for television but also music videos, portraits of artists, to exhibit my work and even to receive two awards for best fashion photographer in Africa.

Today, based in La Mure, in Isère, a small town of less than five thousand inhabitants, I take immense pleasure in reinventing myself and working on much more essential projects such as the memory of our elders or the creativity of children.

Everyone deserves to be photographed with the utmost care. I'm not talking about detail, but about attention given to the gaze, to the moment, to the exchange, to our meeting. I seek to capture that something that cannot be learned, but that will be born from our meeting, from our exchanges. I seek to capture the soul, the aura... Simplicity, beauty, truth.

Today, and for a long time now, one might think that everything has been done, in photography as in cinema.

I sincerely believe that if we want to renew ourselves, we must break the rules, forget what is taught in schools, reinvent and allow ourselves liberties, take risks, dare, trust ourselves.