Chico Bialas is the guesty of the 12th International Festival of Fashion Photography, Cannes Photo Mode.
Chico Bialas studied at the Art Academy of Stuttgart, this is where he met his wife Linde. Since then, they have lived and conducted their careers together, she as a designer and art director, he behind the camera. Chico and Linde have combined their respective sensitivities and sense of humor to tell stories in a nurturing and caring that has quickly attracted the attention of international fashion magazines singular style. In 1982, they left Hamburg and moved to Paris to work with international magazines : Elle, Marie Claire France, Marie Claire Italy, Vogue Italy, Grazia, Donna, GQ America… and fashion journalists, Claire Dupont, Béatrice Amagat, Mako Yamazaki, Elisabeth Bernigaud, Genevieve Delauney, Elizabeth Dijan, Lucia Rafaeli, Christina Bernezzo, Carine Roitfeld, Anna Pavlovski… Supermodels and actresses, Naomi Campbell, Laetitia Casta, Eva Herzigova, Helena Christensen, Linda Evangelista, Monica Bellucci, Catherine Deneuve, Andie Mc Dowell, Emmanuelle Seigner… paraded in front of his camera.
Chico Bialas is known for its colorful, joyous and vibrant images, using a long lens that accentuates the very shallow depth of field blurs backgrounds become dabs of paint. For its fashion series in black and white, it is very inspired by Italian cinema, a mixture of eroticism and humor, and its contrasting lights. He directed his first commercial for Cachou Lajaunie, which was the first TV to get La Minerve Platinum spot and was rewarded as the best advertising of the year. In 1989, he made a beautiful film Schweppes Brazil to the music of Chico Buarque, with a wild cast is recruited Brazilians on the beach.I wanted the film exudes Brazil, with its joie de vivre, his sense of fun and sensuality of Brazil. Prestigious brands then call on him, Mexx International, Kenzo, Ungaro, Dim, Lancôme, Guerlain, Rochas, Saint Laurent, among others, his directorial work being rewarded with numerous international awards.
Since 2000, Chico and Linde live in Ibiza, where photography still holds a central place in their lives His photographs have been exhibited in various galleries in Europe and North America, and have been published in books Ibiza una pasion, published in 2003, and Do not move in 2009.
