Biography

The Photography by Fabrice Vallon

Fabrice Vallon, 43 years, was born in Paris and is working there.

When he was nine years old, Fabrice made his first photographs with a Polaroïd Camera and had his first exposition in the city of his childhood, Mantes La Jolie.
For him it was already clear that this art would be a part of his life, his passion.
At the age of 16, he was only focused on photography and he decided to make it his « work ».

The Art of Photography was his personal cultural revolution. By showing his pictures, they are his way of communicating, his way of seeing and expressing his emotions. In 1987, he started working for the Agency Sygma. His photographs of shows, television, press, people and travels started to be distributed.

The qualities of his professional and artistic photographs are being acknowledged:

• June 3rd, 2005: Prix National in the category “professional” contest “One visions 2005” handed over by Sarah Moon.
• Travel exposition through Europe of pictures that have been rewarded.
• 2005 – Laureate of the Biennale of Contemporary Art of Issy-les-Moullineaux. September 16th-October 30th, 2005 exposition in the “Museum de la carte a jouer” (Museum of cards) of Issy-les-Moullineaux.
• November 11th, 2009 – his first coverage on national Television. National en France (France 3), devoted an exclusive item to Fabrice on his portrait exhibition: MOI by Fabrice Vallon.

Fabrice Vallon has a big dream. As of 1998 his photography becomes plasticized art. He works on a series called “Noches” a subtle work of video projection.

The faces and the corpses of Fabrice’s models are dressed like snapshots. The figures play with their colours in a way that they are penetrating the body, thereby making spout a light of which he only knows the sole secret. Playing with the light and the language of the colours, perpetual images just like soft and intoxicating music notes, the passionate photographer makes with the wire of his negatives a melody which is very soft and discrete while at the same time strident and arrogant, by chance encounters between the image and its model.
In 2008: an encounter, a visit, a flash. He creates “Turn on the light”; an exposition which pays tribute to the light, a revolution that has become trivial in our society. To give that back for a moment, this primacy that merits so much! This demarche did not serve to recount history, but simply to admire the aesthetic beauty, that our daily life offers.
Recuperation, construction, diffusion accomplishment and illumination are in the structure itself of this artistic challenge that will wake up your taste of the clarity that Fabrice Vallon would like to share.

As of 2009: Grand Travels. The white Universe fascinates him. Fabrice presents Paradis blanc (white Paradise) a visit of the Arctic and of the Antarctic.

Surprising world of iceberg, which is being illuminated by an intoxicated softness covered with gold.
Sprinkled by blue tears, under the continuous gaze of the sun.
Choreography, a performance that has been staged on the earth.
The White becomes a catalyst of happiness and of feeling good, the world breaths!
Those enormous passing sculptures squirm, in a very idyllic décor.
Numerous companies use his services for original and artistic photographs for their internal and external communication. The press uses his pictures. His most important reports are being published regularly in newspapers and French and international magazines.

Exhibitions

2011 exhibition

• October-November 2011 « Paris 10 ° » Photographic Meeting of the City of Paris, Paris Gallery CUB7
• June 2011 « Arctic & Antarctic » walk the white side of the world, made for the photographic subject Monde2 and presented to the Paris Gallery CUB7

2010 exhibition

• November 2010 « White Circle » Month of Photography OFF
• April 2010 – White Circle Gallery By Fabrice Vallon CUB7 Paris

2009 exhibition

• September-October-November 2009 « I » by Fabrice VALLON, Photographic Meeting of the City of Paris, Paris Gallery CUB7

2008 exhibition

• November 2008 « Turn Off the Light » Month of Photography OFF

Paris Gallery CUB7

• October 2008 « Eiffel Tower » on the Ephemeral Gallery Investing pte Maillot Paris Salon

2007 exhibition

• October 2007 « NOCHE » on the Ephemeral Gallery Investing pte Maillot Paris Salon
• October 2007 PARADISE IN THE STUDIO « NOCHE » Paris Gallery CUB7
• June 2007 NOCHE at the Center for Contemporary Art in Clamart

2006 exhibition

• November 2006 MONTH PHOTO retrospective exhibition Noche and the first wall of « I » Paris Gallery CUB7
• October 2006, ME – Dream Photographic studio in Paris NOCHE

2005 exhibition

• November 2005 NOCHE the photo meeting of the 10th Paris
• September 2005-Go-Private NOCHE
• Biennial of Contemporary Art of Issy-les-Moulineaux.

2005 exhibition

• NOCHE Photo-Video March 2004 performance of « The Reserve » and following (Diffusion in Area Revised) and HypeGallery the Palais de Tokyo.