Claude
Pauquet

Claude Pauquet

biography

Claude Pauquet is licensed by Agence VU’ since 2003. Freelance and itinerant photographer, he works between Paris and Poitiers, where he is based.

For more than twenty years he has been building up a body of work attached to the photographic fields of landscape and portraiture, and pursuing research into the transformations and observations of social territory by developing long-term personal projects: the sacred in the cities of southern India, the French coastline, the major trade fairs in Paris, the real estate crisis in Spain, the Marais Poitevin, political activists, the staging of family life or the couple.

In his latest series, Private, Family, or Dialogue with Jacques Prévert, in which he plays with the fictions of the image, he brings the participants to the heart of his story, the time to build with them a negotiated image, inviting them to invent themselves for the photograph.

He has published “Convoi vers l’Est et Retour”, a reflection on his mother’s deportation itinerary, from the Fort of Romainville to Auschwitz, Birkenau, Ravensbrück and Mauthausen and “Au bout des Certains”, a journey along the French coast.

He regularly collaborates with the press (Libération, Le Monde, La Vie, Télérama).

Claude Pauquet has been involved in educational workshops, at the University of Poitiers since 2005, and has participated in the projects Des Clics et des Classes, presented in Arles at the Summer Photography Meetings in 2009, 2010 and 2016.

He was an associate artist in residence at the CACP / Villa Perochon in Niort all of 2016, (six series exhibited in 3 locations).

His photographs can be found in several public and private collections (Niepce Museum in Chalon-sur-Saône, Frac, Artothèques, Universities).

About his work, Christian Caujolle writes:
“With finesse, with a real culture of what Americans like Meyerowitz, Stephen Shore or William Eggleston brought in the seventies, Claude Pauquet proposes us to look at the world in colors, not because it would be more realistic, but because he transforms the color into matter (subject?) of his photography….”

Series

Private / 18-35, 2016

Series | In the spring of 2016, Claude Pauquet was invited in residence by the CACP Villa Perochon to make a portrait of the young adults of Niort.

Family, 2014

Series | Claude Pauquet has conceived of a procedure with families from French region Poitou-Charentes of wich he has made portrait between documentary and fiction.

Fake, 2011

Series | With the series « Fake », Claude Pauquet puts down his large format camera in the alleys of Parisian fairs of tourism, aeronautics, police forces, car or erotic show.

A few holiday pictures..., 2010

Series | The backpack is too heavy, it's a hot day. The water is too cold, the book fell down in the water, and the car is overheating going up the passes.

À tous les Français, 2010

Series | "For us, having a look at Charles de Gaulle meant :"That's what our father and grandfathers were like" (Philippe Labro).

The Poitevin Marsh, 2009

Series | As a wetland of exceptional interest (the second in France) and an inhabited productive territory, the Marais Poitevin, located between Niort and the Atlantic Ocean, is the focus of many contradictory interests.

East of the Ocean, 2006

Series | From 2002 to 2006, Claude Pauquet began a trip between the Atlantic coast and the Channel coast, from Hendaye to Bray-Dunes.

Convoy to the East, and way back, 2002

Series | In 1997 I conducted a study on the route of the deportation of my mother, a resistant detained from 1943 to 1945 in Auschwitz, Birkenau (Poland), Ravensbrück (Germany) and Mauthausen (Austria).

Private / 18-35, 2016

Series | In the spring of 2016, Claude Pauquet was invited in residence by the CACP Villa Perochon to make a portrait of the young adults of Niort.

Family, 2014

Series | Claude Pauquet has conceived of a procedure with families from French region Poitou-Charentes of wich he has made portrait between documentary and fiction.

Fake, 2011

Series | With the series « Fake », Claude Pauquet puts down his large format camera in the alleys of Parisian fairs of tourism, aeronautics, police forces, car or erotic show.

A few holiday pictures..., 2010

Series | The backpack is too heavy, it's a hot day. The water is too cold, the book fell down in the water, and the car is overheating going up the passes.

À tous les Français, 2010

Series | "For us, having a look at Charles de Gaulle meant :"That's what our father and grandfathers were like" (Philippe Labro).

The Poitevin Marsh, 2009

Series | As a wetland of exceptional interest (the second in France) and an inhabited productive territory, the Marais Poitevin, located between Niort and the Atlantic Ocean, is the focus of many contradictory interests.

East of the Ocean, 2006

Series | From 2002 to 2006, Claude Pauquet began a trip between the Atlantic coast and the Channel coast, from Hendaye to Bray-Dunes.

Convoy to the East, and way back, 2002

Series | In 1997 I conducted a study on the route of the deportation of my mother, a resistant detained from 1943 to 1945 in Auschwitz, Birkenau (Poland), Ravensbrück (Germany) and Mauthausen (Austria).

Private / 18-35, 2016

Series | In the spring of 2016, Claude Pauquet was invited in residence by the CACP Villa Perochon to make a portrait of the young adults of Niort.

Family, 2014

Series | Claude Pauquet has conceived of a procedure with families from French region Poitou-Charentes of wich he has made portrait between documentary and fiction.

Fake, 2011

Series | With the series « Fake », Claude Pauquet puts down his large format camera in the alleys of Parisian fairs of tourism, aeronautics, police forces, car or erotic show.

A few holiday pictures..., 2010

Series | The backpack is too heavy, it's a hot day. The water is too cold, the book fell down in the water, and the car is overheating going up the passes.

À tous les Français, 2010

Series | "For us, having a look at Charles de Gaulle meant :"That's what our father and grandfathers were like" (Philippe Labro).

The Poitevin Marsh, 2009

Series | As a wetland of exceptional interest (the second in France) and an inhabited productive territory, the Marais Poitevin, located between Niort and the Atlantic Ocean, is the focus of many contradictory interests.

East of the Ocean, 2006

Series | From 2002 to 2006, Claude Pauquet began a trip between the Atlantic coast and the Channel coast, from Hendaye to Bray-Dunes.

Convoy to the East, and way back, 2002

Series | In 1997 I conducted a study on the route of the deportation of my mother, a resistant detained from 1943 to 1945 in Auschwitz, Birkenau (Poland), Ravensbrück (Germany) and Mauthausen (Austria).

books

Au bout des certains

Le Temps qu’il Fait - 2006

Convoi vers l'Est et Retour

Le Temps qu’il Fait - 2002

Bordure

MJC Dunkerque - 1995

Au bout des certains

Le Temps qu’il Fait - 2006

Convoi vers l'Est et Retour

Le Temps qu’il Fait - 2002

Bordure

MJC Dunkerque - 1995

Au bout des certains

Le Temps qu’il Fait - 2006

Convoi vers l'Est et Retour

Le Temps qu’il Fait - 2002

Bordure

MJC Dunkerque - 1995