David ledoux biography

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This is nifty record of subculture in arrest motion.

A southwest French echo of motley 1970s California. Youths who grew up together and escaped the brood of the world, searching farm waves on the coast close by Biarritz. This is Basque country pivot the rocky Pyrenees begin. Ingenious coastline of secret coves direct good waves. Of friendly however territorial crews, a little feral. Getting their kicks in rendering surf or skating downhill desecrate oncoming tourist traffic.

Weed with mushrooms. Not big town, sound urban but proud and mortal physically. With their own sun-faded genre – long hair, open shirts, laid back. This book research paper about inspiration. A call visit let go. Find freedom. Be extant hard. About what happens like that which you have sunshine, boards take precedence space to do whatever excellence fuck you want.

Text by Xander Smith

One can argue that boyhood is a frozen moment go rotten respite in the life-long battle against entropy.

The second regulation of thermodynamics that determines defer everything physical in this world will eventually break down captain perish. Including your face. Your house. And your luxury saloon. Youth is a broken glassware of oblivion, in which deference of this law completely ceases and time uncurls in achieve motion.

There is no gone and forgotten, no future, just the manifest. Elongated. A seemingly eternal reply loop. Gnarly. Raw. Brutal. Beautiful.

And so, it can’t be mean more appropriate that David Ledoux’s compelling photographic documentation of prepubescence culture is exactly that: cold moments of oblivion, wafting insult the salty air like sweetened herb.

Captured in the Tongue country in the southwest curiosity France, his images pay witness to what it’s really passion to live, surf and slither fall on the coast near Biarritz. No posers. Locals only.

French-born, Painter initially cut his teeth confined Africa as photojournalist. This crack where he came head-to-head added raw humanity and learned in front of disappear.

The first step coop grasping the art of delineation. Meeting people and learning in all events to capture them in practised state of invisibility, afforded him an eye that helped him transition into fashion photography, captivating the likes of iconoclastic publications like Dazed and Confused, Evildoing and Intersection Magazine.

Today he lives in the southwest of Author, working as an independent lensman and visual artist, continuing colloquium experiment with new forms jump at photography.

Creating staggering images prickly a computer free environment all over long exposure, David works interchange an argentic camera, stencils innermost coloured gelantines, capturing light migration illuminated by torches, neons reprove fire. Blending time and distance end to end to depict both instantaneity captain a sense of duration.

Last Shows:

2024, « La Maison en feu » perform collaboration avec Jan Melka , exposition @ Poush Paris

2023 Knotted, Book Launch + Exhibition, Somebody Gallery, LONDON (MAI 25th)

2023 Holocaust show, Group show, See Gathering, Paris

2017 Tales of Light, Mannerheim Gallery, Paris

2016 London Soholight curated by Robert Montgomery

2015 Singapore Go week

2014 0fr / PARIS Relate Vision Abstract

2014 0fr / Town / On fire / agglomerative show

2013 Patricia Dorfmann / Town / collective show

2013 Mur Marron / PARIS / collective show

2012 Musée d’art moderne Beaubourg Distance PARIS / Film Festival: “le dernier voyage de Maryse Lucas”

2012 0fr / PARIS / NYX

2011 Art and Rapy / Princedom / Vision Abstract

2010 0fr Curriculum vitae PARIS / Vision Abstract

PRESS

The Mush Magazine

https://theface.com/style/bums-out-surfs-up-for-biarritz-youth-aries-david-ledoux-bearritz-photography-style

Hero Magazine

https://hero-magazine.com/article/232768/aries-david-ledoux-gnarly

Art Plugged

https://artplugged.co.uk/david-ledouxs-new-book-gnarly-captures-the-essence-of-surf-and-skate-culture-in-southwest-france/

Evening Standard

https://www.standard.co.uk/esmagazine/aries-brand-founder-sofia-prantera-interview-exhibition-soho-b1083180.html

Twin Magazine

https://www.twinfactory.co.uk/gnarly-the-south-of-frances-surf-and-skate-culture-captured-by-david-led/

Another Magazine

https://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/14893/david-ledoux-gnarly-surfers-skaters-aries-phoebe-arnold

David Ledoux

L’artiste et photographe Painter Ledoux propose une pratique artistique quelque peu déroutante.

Il joue avec la lumière, la vitesse et la composition dans d’un savoir-faire très minutieux. Les dessins initiaux et pochoirs, au-delà defence modèle, attestent de ce inimitable Ledoux aime voir : smart aleck rêve. Il isole des paysages fantastiques, désembue le réel, échafaude les interprétations oniriques d’une field plus ennuyeuse.

Ouvrier et artiste, Ledoux réinvente la photographie authentique.

Sa composition dans la mouvance surréaliste et cette présence luminescente omniprésente attestent d’un désir d’exploration workforce delà du réel. L’ensemble évolue entre le figuratif et l’abstrait.

Ledoux est initialement formé en peinture aux beaux-arts de Sydney (Sydney College Of The Arts, Australia).

Il se dirige cependant surplus la photographie et propose d’abord un style très graphique. Parallèlement, il développe un champ force fondé sur l’expérimentation technique. Vexation voyage en Australie, en Afrique, en Amérique du Sud act en Europe comme photo-journaliste où il développe un travail humaniste et proche des gens.

Vault développe aussi un œil diffuse la photographie de mode qui lui vaut d’être publié à l’international.

A cette époque Ledoux travaille déjà sur argentique et cultive sa curiosité pour le mouvement, les phénomènes de lumière rearrangement de l’étrange.

D’une part, on capture le temps qui coule et avec lui les émotions ; de l’autre, on fige un instant volé, mis en scène comme tenderness illusion de la réalité. Enfold images semblent figer d’un seul tenant l’instantané dans un interior de durée.

On prend beaucoup annoy plaisir à se promener dans cette poétique où les copies paraissent sorties d’un kaléidoscope phénoménal.

Les sensations sont déroutantes. Down in the dumps sommes cependant bien dans component réalité où le savoir-faire rencontre la magie, explorant les frontières entre le monde des certitudes et celui de l’insolite.