Bertrand Desprez

Photographe français né en 1963, membre de l’agence VU’, vit et travaille principalement à Paris

Diplômé de l’Ecole Louis lumière, c’est à travers la photographie et une réflexion constante du rapport de l’homme à son environnement que Bertrand Desprez réconcilie deux aspirations radicalement opposées qui l’habitent : d’un côté, une envie de liberté et de solitude sans entrave ; de l’autre, le besoin d’un ancrage, d’une rive rassurante…

French. Born in 1963 in Douai. Lives in Paris.

In addition to his permanent work for the press, Bertrand Desprez has continued to work on personal projects, in which he has created series exploring unconventional subjects that raise questions about society.
Receiving numerous awards, and having published and exhibited a series on teenagers in France, he has been widely recognised for his work. This visual survey in black and white is both elegant and modest and represents discreet and “ordinary,” unspectacular moments that in concert represent a fragile and sensitive portrait of a generation…