Jean-Pierre Domingue

Jean-Pierre Domingue
Nationality	French-Canadian
Title	Jean-Pierre Domingue

Jean-Pierre Domingue (born the 29 in Montreal) is a French-Canadian photographer. He begins his career in fashion photography and publicity at the age of 19, a career spanning 30 years and following which, in 2010, he puts fashion photography behind him to dedicate himself entirely to art photography and to journalist photography. His passion for image creation continues to develop, as he explores different methods and subjects whilst in displacement for his various fashion work. He is recognized for his landscapes, his nude photography work, and anatomical detail, carried out during his various travels, through which he creates an artistic language of capturing precise moments.

Early years

Jean Pierre Domingue was born in 1960 to parents of Canadian origin. He has three sons. Himself the son of a radiologist, he breaks with the family tradition in taking an entirely separate path, first finding inspiration in photography magazines such as Camera and Zoom.

Il then decides to leave Montreal for Paris at the age of 18 in order to meet the famous fashion photographer Guy Bourdin, having discovered his work in the magazine Photo. Following several early fruitless attempts, he finally meets him by chance when accompanying his girlfriend of that time who was the subject of a photoshoot for Vogue. He acquires a solid experience in becoming the assistant of Guy Bourdin. During his return to Montreal, from 1981 to 1984 Jean-Pierre Domingue opens his own studio and is published in magazine including Votre Beauté.

Career

Following his return to Paris in 1984 where he since resides, Jean-Pierre Domingue is hired by the agency Karin Models as a fashion scout, and creates the testboard (newfaces' department'). During his recruitment trips, he brings many young models to Paris, launching amongst others the careers of Helena Christensen and also Angie Everhart, who he photos in 1993 for the magazine Photo, preceded by an individual interview of himself in 1990 ·  · .

Following this period, Jean-Pierre Domingue leaves the model agency to concentrate entirely on fashion photography. he opens his own studio, today renamed Redstudio, in which all his shoots in Paris take place. Partly due to his contacts in fashion magazines and houses , he meets with notable success in fashion photography. He works with the most prestigious fashion publications including Vogue (France, Espagne), ELLE (Italy, Quebec), Surface, Tank, Depeche Mode, Votre Beauté, and Jardin des Modes in which he does a portrait of Serge Gainsbourg, also photographing famous fashion models such as Laetitia Casta, Estelle Lefébure, Chandra North, Diane Kruger, Roberta Chirko, and more recently Lara Stone and in 2008. His clients include l'Oréal, Yves Saint Laurent, Dior, Wonderbra, La RedouteTemplate:Etc He is also artistic director in 2007 of the clip once upon a time of the French group AIR .

Jean Pierre Domingue photographs in his photo studio certain icons of the international rock scene, notably the group Sonic Youth just previous to their concert at La Maroquinerie , and also the actor Jared Leto in 2012.

Jean Pierre Domingue decides at the age of 50 to pull a curtain on his career in fashion and publicity and concentrate on his personal work in image creation. He exposes in 2012 in his studio, and also shows 100 polaroids at the gallery Basia Embiricos in Paris, as well as participation in many group exhibitions, including one on his premises. Since 2013, he travels to photograph churches in the south of Italy, mummies, catacombs narturtiums of Palermo, the ruins of Pompeii, Cambodian monks and the temple of Angkor Vat, Hanoi, the Bay of Hạ Long in Vietnam, and continues to photograph models and dancers. In 2011 he sets up Redstudio with his associate Julien Courtois , which receives photoshoots for magazines including Vogue, L'Officiel, Jalouse, Purple, and numerous other actors and models including Audrey Tautou, Gaspard Ulliel, Clémence Poésy, Isabelle Huppert, Leigh Lezark, Loan Chabanol, Olga Kurylenko, amongst others.

Bibliography

• Angkor Mag : http://www.blurb.fr/b/4398142-angkor-mag
• Pompéi Mag :http://www.blurb.fr/b/4405582-pompei-mag

See also

External links

1. • Template:Site officiel
   • Site de son studio : Redstudio
   • Career path of Jean-Pierre Domingue sur l’œil de la photographie : http://www.loeildelaphotographie.com/fr/2014/04/26/l-oeil-des-lecteurs/24791/jean-pierre-domingue-polas
   • Biography of Jean-Pierre Domingue : http://actuphoto.com/27818-laquo-100-polaroids-de-1990-a-2010-raquo-par-jean-pierre-domingue.html
   • http://www.loeildelaphotographie.com/2014/04/26/the-eye-of-readers/24791/jean-pierre-domingue-polas