Ben Fourmi is a young French photographer who grew up in Châteauroux. Today, he shares his world with his community and readers on social media and in magazines, offering them a modern, bright, humorous and colorful vision of the fashion industry.
In his younger years, the artist lived for a few years in New Caledonia and on Réunion Island, where he attended art school. These places also allowed him to awaken his curiosity, meet inspiring people, and discover new cultures. These are places dear to him that have nourished his inspiration and which he still draws upon today to develop his art.
Over the years, Ben Fourmi He honed his eye and broadened his horizons to offer a unique perspective on the world of fashion by playing with clothes, poses, and gazes. As soon as his fingers touch the camera, he feels the comfort provided by this small device, developing a visual language that blends the complexity of life, beauty, strangeness, belonging, movement, and the body.
Represented today by Denise Agency, Ben Fourmi is a positive artist who manages to tell a story and convey messages in a single photograph. With his conceptual shots and colorful world, he evokes emotion and feeling that provoke, react, and awaken consciences through photographs far removed from reality.
Juggling editorials, the artist conveys his vision through Good heavens!, a magazine for which he is the art director. He enjoys working with fashion as well as still life, beauty and perfume, not to mention fashion photography and contemporary art. His creative work is fueled by the positive energy emphasized by his current mantra. "I'm not an angry fashionista, I'm just having fun to take a step back and make people dream."
Paris, France
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Thomas Durin
