Fabrice Lachant

I would describe my most recent work as a hybrid between photographic images, painting and collage. My creative apprenticeship was as a photographer and filmmaker. After studying film at the Emerson College in Boston Massachusetts, I became a professional photographer with an emphasis on fashion and beauty photography. Through personal photographic work I developed an appreciation of perspective, form and also a love of textures, which i could find in raw concrete forms of brutalist architecture or urban landscapes.
I started painting for personal projects. My technique has evolved through experimentation with the ways in which paint and other media can be used to create textures and layers which refer to each other both laterally on the canvas but also three dimensionally through processes of building up layers and also scraping material away. Whether I am looking at another artist’s work or something I encounter day to day in a City street, I am aware of the interaction between layers of material as they both build up and then fall away either on purpose of through decay and destruction. This is a dimension that I am trying to create through my own work. Works which move me have layers and textures and patinas which belie t...

MA Photography University of the Arts London, UK
BA Film/Photography Emerson College, USA

19 Greek Street, Soho 2018
19 Greek Street, Soho 2019