
Claude
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


Family, 2014

Fake, 2011

A few holiday pictures..., 2010

À tous les Français, 2010

The Poitevin Marsh, 2009

East of the Ocean, 2006

Convoy to the East, and way back, 2002

Private / 18-35, 2016

Family, 2014

Fake, 2011

A few holiday pictures..., 2010

À tous les Français, 2010

The Poitevin Marsh, 2009

East of the Ocean, 2006

Convoy to the East, and way back, 2002

Private / 18-35, 2016

Family, 2014

Fake, 2011

A few holiday pictures..., 2010

À tous les Français, 2010

The Poitevin Marsh, 2009

East of the Ocean, 2006

Convoy to the East, and way back, 2002
books

Au bout des certains

Convoi vers l'Est et Retour

Bordure

Au bout des certains

Convoi vers l'Est et Retour

Bordure

Au bout des certains

Convoi vers l'Est et Retour
