ENTRY DESCRIPTION
This image is part of a photo series called "Fragmented Ascension", which mixes and mixes black and white photos of bodies and mountains. Sometimes bodies and mountains merge into the same image. This series comes from my love for the body of women and the mountain, why not make a series of it?
This photo was taken at Rolleifex, in a studio in Paris, in 2021.
AUTHOR
Léna Mezlef was born in Paris and currently lives there. She works mainly in argentic, a technique she favors for its slow, meditative process. This method enables her to capture the subtlety and authenticity of moments, while offering a timeless and distinctive aesthetic. Her style is at the crossroads of contemporary times and an obsession with the past, creating images infused with current culture but rooted in a nostalgic vision. Her recurring themes include male/female relationships, youth/old age, and the energy of everyday life that she wants to fantasize about. She weaves together human intimacy with lighter, sometimes absurd and humorous elements. Her work is also hybrid: at once acidic like an almost-ripe fruit and chemically sweet like a tagada saturated with pink dye. Léna banters with the bodies of her generation, seeking to reveal the problems and joys they carry beneath their skin. Beauty, whether proper or ungainly, transpires in her images. Through her photographs, she develops a popular aesthetic, balanced between the garish and the offbeat, but always sincere. Reaching a greater maturity on certain social and environmental issues, her artistic work embarks on these without the pretension or intention of resorting to big, conventional, already-made and hackneyed phrases.
After leaving unconvincing business studies, Léna devoted herself entirely to photography. She assisted numerous fashion photographers such as Jack Davison, Gilad Sasporta, Julien Martinez Leclerc, and Virgile Guinard, where she learned essential techniques as well as artistic aspects of photography and direction. These collaborations have enabled her to forge a singular, hybrid aesthetic, blending fashion influences and documentary realism.
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