TIMELESS PHOTOGRAPHS WITH A CONTEMPORARY FLAIR
Laurent Elie Badessi is a Franco American fine art photographer born in France. He belongs to a family with three generations of photographers. From an early age, this enabled him to explore and appreciate the art of photography.
After studying language and communication sciences at Université des Lettres d’Avignon, Badessi enrolled in a photography course at Université Paris VIII. Curious about the psychological aspects of the interaction that occurs between a photographer and his sitter during a photo session, he decided to base his M.A. thesis on that subject, and spent several months in Niger, Africa taking photographs of isolated tribes that had never or very rarely been exposed to the medium.
Badessi started his career in Paris and continued working abroad before moving to the United States.
After spending ten years focusing on the human figure, his work SKIN, was compiled in a book of the same name internationally released by Edition Stemmle. The book contains a foreword written by Sondra Gilman, Founder and Chairperson of the photography committee at the Whitney Museum.
Badessi’s photographs are part of many important private and public collections. He has received several prestigious awards, including a grant from the French Department of Cultural Affairs for his Paris show Métamorphoses.
Solo and group shows of his work have taken place around the world in major cities like New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Miami, London, Milan, Rome, Paris, Nice, Barcelona, Kuwait City, Beijing, Monaco and Dubai.
Laurent Elie Badessi lives in New York.
SELECTED COLLECTIONS: Whitney Museum New York - Gilman & Gonzales-Falla Collection - Sir Elton John Collection - Buhl Collection - Danforth Museum of Art - Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville Fl. - Bibliothèque Nationale de France Paris - Musee de l’Elysée, Lausanne - Les Arts Decoratifs / Musée de la Publicitée Paris - Barry Diller - Dr. Daniel Baker - Dr. Pier-Luigi Gibelli - Jérôme Prochiantz - Jorge Perez - Karl Lagerfeld - Pierre Cardin - The Related Group - Bloomingdale’s - Saks Fifth Avenue - Royal Caribbean.