Le Cigare (2005) Photography by Luz

LUZ, a photographer with a powerful and original personality, considers photography to be the most direct way to bring to life the stories that emanate from his imagination. Through her photos, she creates a parallel world, a canvas where each viewer can explore their own feelings.

The artist revisits myths, translates emotions, and sometimes, provokes shocks, arouses intrigue, but never leaves one indifferent. His photographs reflect sometimes intense emotions, expressed with surprising delicacy and tenderness.

LUZ has a unique look at life and beings, navigating between dreaminess and eroticism, paganism and religiosity, sweetness and fear, while maintaining a realism taken to the extreme. Her motivations are to follow her desires and break the conventions of easy beauty.

With an innate sense of staging and composition, LUZ chooses unexpected locations for her photo shoots, creating a fascinating contrast between the glamor of her models and the theatricality of the themes she explores. Her intuitive approach to spaces and her feminine gaze on her subjects allow her to make the invisible visible by creating unexpected situations in places full of history and resonance.

She often places her models in settings as unusual as an abandoned factory or a forgotten sanctuary, creating atmospheres reminiscent of the aesthetic of Stanley Kubrick and generating sometimes disturbing images.

LUZ has the unique ability to reveal the beauty hidden in places steeped in the past, even if they carry a negative aura. Integrating femininity into these strange, disturbing, and sometimes even shocking settings, she creates sparks of life and hope, immersing us in a world of grace that transcends cultural codes.

Preferring natural light to studio lighting, LUZ captures singular images that expose women while sublimating their souls through his unique look at bodies.

Dreaminess is omnipresent in his photographs, inviting the viewer to explore the depths of the unconscious.

She sometimes draws her inspiration from works of philosophy or art history, integrating religious references to disturbing universes, with poses reminiscent of biblical scenes.

LUZ's work is also imbued with her primary passion, horse riding, which she uses as a recurring theme to showcase the natural beauty of the horse, often considered to be man's best friend.

• Nationality: FRANCE
• Date of birth : 1978
• Artistic domains: Works by professional artists, Represented by a Gallery,
• Groups: Professional Artist Contemporary French Artists Artists presented by a gallery