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Patrick REMY
Creative Director |
Patrick Remy is a photography critic, independent publisher, and artistic director. He has served as curator of numerous exhibitions on fashion photography, notably in Kobe and Melbourne, as well as the artistic director, between 2010 and 2014, of the Planche(s) Contact festival in Deauville. In 1999, he founded Patrick Remy Studio, specializing in consulting and iconographic research for luxury brands and advertising agencies. He also works with numerous publishing houses such as Steidl, Rizzoli New York, Louis Vuitton Prestel, and Taschen. To date he has published some forty books, including monographs devoted to Hiromix, Steve Hiett, Massimo Vitali, Max Pam, Saul Leiter, Helmut Newton, Wing Shya, Kourtney Roy, Gerard Malanga, Jonas Mekas, Guido Mocafico, Thibaut Cuisset, Quentin de Briey, Kishin Shinoyama, Sonia Sieff, Bettina Rheims, Valérie Belin, Jeanloup Sieff, Slim Sarons and Daidō Moriyama amongothers. He is also the author of The Art of Fashion Photography (Prestel, 2014), Desire: New Erotic Photography (Prestel, 2015) and Antiglossy. Fashion Photography Now (Rizzoli NY, 2019).
influences
questionnaire
1. What was your very first job?
Journalist at Europe 1
2. Please describe, in your own words, what your job is and what work it entails.
To give advice, to give solutions when you want to communicate
3. How did you discover that the creative world was right for you? Was there a time in your life that you credit to this discovery? What was there train of events that brought you to where you are today?
Few photo books !
4. In your constantly growing and expanding industry, how do you find inspiration to keep your work fresh, innovative and relevant?
Just need to be curious !
5. If you had to pick one piece of work or project that you are most proud of, more for the creative work and innovation it required, rather than its recognition or industry “success,” what would it be?
Always the next one !
6. What social media artist/account are you most influenced by?
Just paper magazines !
