Frédéric Lecloux

The Waste of the World, tribute to Nicolas Bouvier / L'usure du monde, hommage à Nicolas Bouvier

biography

Frédéric Lecloux is a Belgian-French photographer and writer born in 1972.

He is a self-taught photographer who graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie d’Arles in 2016.
His photographic writing, full of obsessive slowness and poetry, mixing indoor portraits, everyday objects and melancholic landscapes, is similar to a therapeutic work of relief, whether on the roads of Nicolas Bouvier, in a Nepal in full mutation or in the grip of his own ghosts…
“A photograph. I receive it like an organ transplant. Immediately I recompose myself. And without having had time to feel the wound, I heal. Less crippled now.”

He is the author of a dozen books of texts and photographs including L’Usure du Monde (2008), Brumes à Venir (2012) and Népal, Epiphanies du Quotidien (2017), all published by Le Bec en l’air, a company in which he is also collection director.

Since 2010 he has regularly led educational and mediation workshops centred on the questioning of the uses of photography, notably at Photo.Circle (Nepal), at the Rencontres d’Arles (2010-2014), and in schools.

He is the first guest at the Les Nouvelles oubliées de Rn7 residency in 2019, and is also the author, with Valérie Cuzol, doctoral student in sociology at the Max Weber centre, of the film Quel Côté de l’absence? dealing with the funeral practices of the population of North African origin in Chalon-sur-Saône (2018). He was also the winner of the CNAP’s Support to Documentary Photography Scholarship in 2015, and the Leverhulme Trust Artist in Residence Grant in 2016, for a residency at the University of Nottingham in 2017.

He also runs a blog with critical and analytical texts, translations and interviews on photography www.fredericlecloux.com/blog/

SERIES

Au désert. Népal-Qatar, le Vide et le vide, 2022

Série | A powerful document on the lives of migrant workers in Qatar, as the football World Cup gets underway

Frédéric Lecloux séries

Territory of the cinematograph, 2019-2021

Series | For two years, at the invitation of the Maison de l'image d'Aubenas and the association Les Écrans de Valence, Frédéric Lecloux led a creative photographic residency intended to bring to light the territorial integration of cinema in the Ardèche and the Drôme, and more broadly in the rural world.

Frédéric Lecloux séries

Epiphanies du quotidien, 2017

It's been 20 years now. Why do you keep coming back to it? It's not an easy question.

Frédéric Lecloux séries

L'explication, la paix, l'oubli, 2015

I’ve always found travel to be explicable, following a nomadic meander in the sedentary course of things; other places, other people; vertigo, then return.

Frédéric Lecloux séries

Brumes à venir, 2010

As a Belgian expatriate in France since 2001, the spatial and temporal distance with my country eventually grew sufficiently enough to allow me to deal with past uncertainties that had gained a large inward territory claiming to be explored.

Frédéric Lecloux séries

L'Usure du Monde, 2005

You think you're going to read The Use of the World, and soon it's The Use of the World that binds you.

Home-Réalisations Frédéric Lecloux séries

Au désert. Népal-Qatar, le Vide et le vide, 2022

Série | A powerful document on the lives of migrant workers in Qatar, as the football World Cup gets underway

Frédéric Lecloux séries

Territory of the cinematograph, 2019-2021

Series | For two years, at the invitation of the Maison de l'image d'Aubenas and the association Les Écrans de Valence, Frédéric Lecloux led a creative photographic residency intended to bring to light the territorial integration of cinema in the Ardèche and the Drôme, and more broadly in the rural world.

Frédéric Lecloux séries