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THE AESTHETIC EMOTIONS OF CHLOE LE DREZEN

The French photographer, nourished by the sensibility of beauty, explores the transformative power of make-up, light, and composition in her photographs and limited-edition zines.

© Chloé Le Drezen
© Chloé Le Drezen

Chloé Le Drezen has been fascinated by photography since the day she picked up her father’s camera as a child. Since then, this native of Nantes has never stopped learning photography and making her passion her profession. Today, she lives and works between Paris and London and has her own darkroom in the north of the English capital.

Her portfolio is divided between shoots for magazines (M Le Monde, Vogue), collaborations with brands (Alexander McQueen, Adidas, Victoria Beckham), and her own publications where she takes the time to explore “new ideas without any pressure.”

Behind the lens, she tries to break out of the conventional framework of beauty and fashion photography, highlighting all types of charming assets, exploring the transformative and empowering power of make-up, light, and composition.

© Chloé Le Drezen
© Chloé Le Drezen
© Chloé Le Drezen

Her portfolio plays with warm tones, strobe effects, blurs, close-ups, details, timelessness and the dramatic power of black and white. Everything that invites us to look at the faces and the movement of bodies differently.

From attraction to excitement

Her personal zines in large format consolidate her singular vision through the mysterious power of beauty to move.

© Zine Molly
© Zine Molly

XXI Girls, published in a limited edition of one hundred copies, presented twenty-one female portraits transformed into modern beauties. For her new publication, in collaboration with the stylist Elle Britt, with whom she made a video for the designer Sinead O’Dwyer, she is working for the first time with a model she knows. Molly is a tribute to her friend and model Molly Hunloke, whom she met on an Alexander McQueen project.

Here the photographer once again probes the depths of feminine radiance by going deeper into the intimacy and history of the images.

© Zine Molly

“Working with someone you know fairly well opens up another dimension and it changes the outcome,” she told Another Magazine. “There is a palpable and magical exchange of tenderness and self-affirmation in each photograph.”

Also available in one hundred copies at Claire de Rouen bookshop in London, Molly thus remains a natural progression in the formal process of her photographic reflections.

https://chloeledrezen.com/

Nathalie Dassa