Jean-François Lepage

• Jean-François Lepage began his career as a fashion photographer in the early 80s. Lepage often revisits his photographs after the shoot itself in order to dismantle and interfere with the images he captures. By cutting the negative and positive films to build new multiple images, his artistic practice hovers on the borderline of painting and photography. For three decades his timeless uncanny images appeared in numerous international publications. Since 2014, Lepage has devoted himself exclusively to fine art. He continues to develop his ‘RECYCLE Project’, reconstructing films and photographic prints from his personal archives. His first opus PRELUDE was presented at Unseen Amsterdam 2015. The second opus ZOMBIE, completed in 2019, shows a selection of hand-painted chromogenic and silver gelatine prints.

   

   

  IG Jean-François Lepage

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Solo exhibitions

2023

– 8 x 10 series – Galerie Madé / Paris

2020

– ZOMBIE – TOBE Gallery – Budapest Photo Festival, Gallery Weekend Budapest / Budapest
2016

– Prelude (part I) – 44 Gallery – Brugge Photo Festival / Brugge
– Prelude (part I) – Fotoistanbul / Istanbul
2015

– Prelude (part I) – The Ravestijn Gallery / Amsterdam
– Prelude (part I) – Galerie Madé / Paris
2014

– Memories From The Future – Galerie Quai 26 / Lille
– Memories From The Future – Festival International of Photography / Rishon Lezion
– Memories From The Future – Galerie Madé / Paris
2013

– Memories From The Future – 28th Festival International of Fashion and Photography / Hyères

Selected group exhibitions

2024

– French Photography Today: A New Vision of Reality | Curator: Emmanuelle de l’Ecotais – Sungkok Art Museum / Seoul

– Winter Show: FCKN LOVE II. – TOBE Gallery / Budapest

2023

– TOBE TEN | TO BE continued… – TOBE Gallery / Budapest

– Winter Show: FCKN LOVE I.– TOBE Gallery / Budapest
2020

– Winter Show: The Nightmare Before Xmas – TOBE Gallery / Budapest
– SO[u]LIDARITÉ online – TOBE Gallery / Budapest
– Summer Show: Dreamers – TOBE Gallery / Budapest
2019

– BODYBUILDING curated by TOBE Gallery – Pegazus / Szentbékkálla
2016

– Transcendent Diy – Biennale De L’image Possible / Liège
– L’autre Visage – Centre Photographique – Pôle Image / Rouen
– The Summer Show – The Ravestijn Gallery / Amsterdam
2012

– Colour – Camera Work Gallery / Berlin

Presence in Art Fairs

2023

– Paris Photo | solo show at Main sector – TOBE Gallery / Paris

2021

– Parallel Vienna – TOBE Gallery / Vienna

2019

– UNSEEN – TOBE Gallery / Amsterdam

2016

– Art Paris Art Fair – Galerie Madé / Paris
2015

– UNSEEN – Galerie Madé / Amsterdam
– Photo London – The Ravestijn Gallery / London
2014

– UNSEEN – Galerie Madé / Amsterdam

Selected Publications

2015

– Jean-François Lepage: Moonlight Zoo by Phil Bicker and Raphaëlle Stopin – Edited by Prestel Publishing / Munich
2009

– Modernes: 20 years of contemporary fashion, ANDAM 1989–2009 by Florence Müller and Jean-François Lepage – NAIVE Publishing / Paris
2002

– Archeology of elegance: 1980–2000, 20 years of fashion photography by Marion de Beaupré, Ulf Poschardt, Stéphane Baurnet / Paris

Selected PRESS

2021

– Zombies picturaux et autres expériences plastiques, Lou Tsatsas / FishEye Magazine

2020

– JEAN-FRANÇOIS LEPAGE / HUE & EYE

– Fejest ugrani tilos! – fuziós sorozat (IV.), Sirbik Attila / Újművészet

– JEAN-FRANÇOIS LEPAGE: ZOMBIE, Linda Zhengová / GUP Magazine
– Nagyon kevés kompromisszumot kötöttem az évek során, Sütő Emese Franciska / Marie Claire Hungary

– A szépség összetettsége, Tóth Judit Nikoletta / ArtNews

2017

– About Jean-François Lepage / Lensculture

– Jean-François Lepage / ACTUPHOTO

2016

– Photographer Feature: Jean-Francois Lepage, Shenyah Webb / Nailed Magazine

2015

– High fashion photographer and stunning artist / Lookfilter Magazine

2014

– These Experimental Fashion Photographs Push Boundaries, Phil Bicker / TIME

– JEAN-FRANÇOIS LEPAGE / Design and Culture by Ed

2013

– JEAN-FRANÇOIS LEPAGE / HYERES

available artworks

ZOMBIE

Mixed media on chromogenic and silver gelatin prints