Bernard Faucon

Who is Bernard Faucon?

Bernard Faucon is a French photographer and writer.

Faucon was born in Apt, in Provence, southern France. He was taught at the lycée in Apt, then graduated in Philosophy from the Sorbonne in 1973. Until 1977 he worked as a fine art painter, and thereafter discovered photography. His photographic work has a love of youth and dreamy beauty, using saturated colour, natural settings, rooms and often tableaux of mannequins. His work has been compared to that of Jan Saudek. His major photographic series are, in date-order: Les Grandes Vacances; Evolution probable du Temps; Les Chambre d'amour; Les Idoles et les Sacrifices; Les Ecritures; and La Fin de L'image.

He has won numerous awards from his work, including the Grand Prix National, and the Prix Leonard de Vinci. Since 1977 he has had nearly 300 solo exhibitions, but he decided to cease photography in 1997. In 1999 he produced his first book of writing.

The mannequins used in his work are now at the Nanasai Company Collection, in Kyoto, Japan . In 2002, the Moscow House of Photography held a Bernard Faucon Festival, and he was invited to officially open the Moscow Biennale. He is currently represented by the French agency Agence Vu, and is preparing for a major retrospective exhibition in Japan.