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I started creating collections of photographs which I took since the end of the seventies with my first camera: Mamiya 135 EE. I changed cameras, lenses and format over time. Nowadays I’m taking pictures with different film and digital cameras: 35mm, 6×6 or 4×5 cameras of different brands (Leica, Nikon, Rollei, Contax, Linhof) and digital ones of Nikon and Fujifilm. I still use films because I like the process of developing and enlarging and of course the very attractive rendering; just time is missing… Digital cameras are also great because of their incredible resolution and dynamic. I use them for landscape photography or for projects like Fotogra4.

The contents of this website are protected by copyright law – (c) Laurent Perraut 2019

The fotogra4 project

I started this fantastic project with Reiner Oswald , a very talented photographer living in Bamberg. Our initial motivation was to document old, traditional shops in the city of Bamberg. We ended the project with an exhibition in a famous bookstore presenting the pictures we took of ten of these shops. We are currently continuing this project by taking pictures of traditional craftsmen’s establishments. We’re preparing a second exhibition right now – come see us in 2019!

Only five pictures

If you had to select only five pictures, which ones would you choose?

My choice:

Dieses Bild wurde in Beroun im heutigen Tschechien in September 1988 gemacht. Ich war mit Freunden in Prag unterwegs und hatten diese Stadt per Zufall als Ausflugsziel ausgesucht. Dieser (rote) Stern bleibt für mich der Symbol von falscher Hoffnung in einer besseren (kommunistischen) Welt.

L’étoile de Beroun
This picture was taken in Beroun in today’s Czech Republic. During September of 1988 I spent some days with friends in Prague. Together we chose this city for an excursion. This (red) star is a symbol reminiscent of the false hope of a better world communism gave people.

Bundespräsident Richard von Weizsäcker - Brücke der Einheit (Glienicker Brücke) - http://www.myheimat.de/potsdam/glienicker-bruecke-und-die-grenzoeffnung-1989-d58529.html

Berlin 11/11/1989
Bundespräsident Richard von Weizsäcker – Brücke der Einheit (Glienicker Brücke) – http://www.myheimat.de/potsdam/glienicker-bruecke-und-die-grenzoeffnung-1989-d58529.html
My friends and I traveled to Berlin when we heard that the Berlin wall was falling. 36 hours in the train for 24 hours on site. This picture was taken  November 11th, 1989.

Die Station "Pont de Neuilly" wurde gerade renoviert. Ich hatte die Leica II von meinem Großvater (Babouf) dabei, als die U-Bahn in den Bahnhof fuhr.

Métro Pont de Neuilly (1990)
The subway station “Pont de Neuilly” was under renovation. I had my grandfather’s (Babouf) Leica II ready as the train arrived.

Die Fondation Maeght in Saint-Paul-de-Vence (Frankreich) ist einer der wunderbarste Ort auf diesem Planet.

Deux Giacometti et un homme
The Maeght Foundation in Saint-Paul-de-Vence (France) is one of the most wonderful places on Earth.

Die Resten eines Alfa Romeos. Der Verfall von menschlichen Objekten hat mich immer fasziniert.

Schrott, Steine und das Meer
The remains of an Alfa Romeo. The deterioration of man-made objects is always fascinating to me.

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Printing!

I used for decades a darkroom but what to do with all the digital files? I often gave my pictures for printing to labs like digitaloriginal.de or larger labs like saal-digital.de and never really invested time in printing digital photo files myself. This ends two weeks ago. I read a lot about carbon printing in …

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The Cévennes

We spend some days in the Cévennes (parc national) last summer. The very changing scenary invites to take pictures all day long. I focused this time using my Fujifilm X-T2 mainly with 23mm 1.4 lens. Few pictures were taken also with the 16mm 1.4 one. I also used my adapted Contax G 90mm 2.8 lens. …

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Don’t hesitate to contact me. My favorite contact way is e-mail: laurent at perraut dot net