Long before marrying, Barbara Rix was already a photographer. From the moment she arrived in Paris, because she lived with a war correspondent, because she became a model, and because she herself examined the world with the Leica she wore slung over her shoulder, Barbara had lived in, as she says, “a photographic atmosphere.”
A few years later on a photo shoot for Vogue, Barbara, the model, met Jeanloup Sieff, the photographer. Passion turned into destiny. Two children later (Sonia and Sacha), Barbara gave up modeling to pursue photography full-time.
“There’s a sudden light, a beautiful space, something that happens that could have escaped me. I’m not looking for it, but I find it: a look, an emotion… Beauty isn’t only perfection. Sometimes there’s something strange in it.
Women, men, nudes, portraits, still lifes, landscapes: her talent is manifold.
As she is.
Marie-Claude Tréglia
