Nurtured by a sensibility for beauty, the French photographer explores the transformative power of make-up, light and composition in her photos and limited-edition zines.
Chloé Le Drezen has been fascinated by photography ever since she borrowed her father's camera as a child. Since then, this native of Nantes has never stopped learning photography, turning her passion into a profession. Today, she lives and works between Paris and London, and has her own darkroom in the north of the English capital. Her portfolio includes shoots for magazines(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 above all to break away from the conventional framework of beauty and fashion photography, highlighting all types of charming assets, and exploring the transformative and empowering power of make-up, light and composition. Her portfolio plays with warm hues, strobe effects, blurs, close-ups, details, timelessness and the dramatic power of black and white. Everything that invites us to look at faces and body movements differently.
From attraction to excitement
Chloé Le Drezen's personal large-format zines consolidate her singular vision of the mysterious power of beauty to move. XXI Girls, published in 100 copies, featured 21 female portraits transformed into modern beauties. For her new publication, in collaboration with stylist Elle Britt, with whom she created a video for designer Sinead O'Dwyer, she works 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, going deeper into the intimacy and history of the images. "Working with someone you know fairly well opens up another dimension and it changes the result," she confided to AnOther Magazine, adding, "There's a palpable, magical exchange of tenderness and self-affirmation in each photograph." Also available in 100 copies from the Claire de Rouen bookshop in London, Molly remains a natural progression in the formal process of her photographic reflections.
