Frédéric
Frédéric Lecloux
biography
© Alexandrine Larue
Frédéric Lecloux is a Belgian-French photographer and writer born in 1972.
He is a self-taught photographer who graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie d’Arles in 2016.
His photographic writing, full of obsessive slowness and poetry, mixing indoor portraits, everyday objects and melancholic landscapes, is similar to a therapeutic work of relief, whether on the roads of Nicolas Bouvier, in a Nepal in full mutation or in the grip of his own ghosts…
“A photograph. I receive it like an organ transplant. Immediately I recompose myself. And without having had time to feel the wound, I heal. Less crippled now.”
He is the author of a dozen books of texts and photographs including L’Usure du Monde (2008), Brumes à Venir (2012) and Népal, Epiphanies du Quotidien (2017), all published by Le Bec en l’air, a company in which he is also collection director.
Since 2010 he has regularly led educational and mediation workshops centred on the questioning of the uses of photography, notably at Photo.Circle (Nepal), at the Rencontres d’Arles (2010-2014), and in schools.
He is the first guest at the Les Nouvelles oubliées de Rn7 residency in 2019, and is also the author, with Valérie Cuzol, doctoral student in sociology at the Max Weber centre, of the film Quel Côté de l’absence? dealing with the funeral practices of the population of North African origin in Chalon-sur-Saône (2018). He was also the winner of the CNAP’s Support to Documentary Photography Scholarship in 2015, and the Leverhulme Trust Artist in Residence Grant in 2016, for a residency at the University of Nottingham in 2017.
He also runs a blog with critical and analytical texts, translations and interviews on photography www.fredericlecloux.com/blog/
SERIES
Territory of the cinematograph, 2019-2021
Epiphanies du quotidien, 2017
L'explication, la paix, l'oubli, 2015
Brumes à venir, 2010
L'Usure du Monde, 2005
Au désert. Népal-Qatar, le Vide et le vide, 2022
Territory of the cinematograph, 2019-2021
Epiphanies du quotidien, 2017
L'explication, la paix, l'oubli, 2015
Brumes à venir, 2010
L'Usure du Monde, 2005
Au désert. Népal-Qatar, le Vide et le vide, 2022
Territory of the cinematograph, 2019-2021
Epiphanies du quotidien, 2017
L'explication, la paix, l'oubli, 2015
Brumes à venir, 2010
L'Usure du Monde, 2005
Multimedia
Le Vide et le vide, 2022
Quel côté de l'absence ?, 2018
Figures with Absent Landscapes, 2017
E-ku Dandelion, 2011
Le Vide et le vide, 2022
Quel côté de l'absence ?, 2018
Figures with Absent Landscapes, 2017
E-ku Dandelion, 2011
Le Vide et le vide, 2022
Quel côté de l'absence ?, 2018
Figures with Absent Landscapes, 2017
E-ku Dandelion, 2011
Interviews
Qatar: the hidden face of the 2022 World Cup
Human rights, narrative and counter-narrative
Round-table discussion organized by Amnesty International France as part of the Ateliers de la pensée du Festival d’Avignon, 16 July 2022.
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Moderated by Guillaume Meurice journalist, July 2022
With Frédéric Lecloux photographer, Ronan Evain Director General of Football Supporters Europe, Carole Gomez Director of Research at the Institute of International and Strategic Relations (Iris), Lola Schulmann Advocacy Officer at Amnesty International France
Rien à voir
Arte Radio
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Interview by Aude Laporte, 2015
Aude Laport interviews Frédéric Lecloux, Photograph and great traveler, notably in Nepal. His motto: “Apply what Nicolas Bouvier taught me on slowness and time”.
Le Grand Voyage
RTBF
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Interview by Sara Pire, 2013
Sara Pire interviews Frédéric Lecloux, photographer for Brumes à venir published by Le Bec en l’air.
Pas la peine de crier
France Culture
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Interview by Marie Richeux, 2012
Marie Richeux interviews Frédéric Lecloux, photographer for Brumes à venir published by Le Bec en l’air.
Pas la peine de crier
France Culture
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Interview by Marie Richeux, 2012
Marie Richeux interviews Frédéric Lecloux, photographer for L’Usure du Monde published by Le Bec en l’air.
BOOKS
Au désert. Migrations Népal – Qatar
Lands of Cinematography
Népal. Épiphanies du quotidien
La grande route par tous les temps
Etonnament étonée
Lit national
Brumes à venir
Peinture recettes maison
Le simulacre du printemps
L’Usure du monde
Lentement vers l’Asie
Katmandu 2058
Au désert. Migrations Népal – Qatar
Lands of Cinematography
Népal. Épiphanies du quotidien
La grande route par tous les temps
Etonnament étonée
Lit national
Brumes à venir
Peinture recettes maison
Le simulacre du printemps
L’Usure du monde
Lentement vers l’Asie
Katmandu 2058
Au désert. Migrations Népal – Qatar
Lands of Cinematography
Népal. Épiphanies du quotidien
La grande route par tous les temps
Etonnament étonée
Lit national
Brumes à venir
Peinture recettes maison
Le simulacre du printemps
L’Usure du monde
Lentement vers l’Asie
Katmandu 2058
Awards
Leverhulme Trust Artist in residence (United Kingdom)
For “Figures avec paysages absents”
2016
CNAP Grant (France)
For “Népal-Qatar, le vide et le plein”
2015