Marian Adréani was born to a Romani family in Romania in 1989. While still an infant, he was dropped off at a hospital and transferred to an orphanage in Craiova before being adopted by a French family 1991. His grandfather, Lucien Adréani (1920-1991), was a painter and sculptor. Marian started taking pictures at thirteen, at first asking his parents to pose for him, then strangers in the street.
Through photography, Marian created an imaginary family, one whose members he was free to choose. Marian has also dabbled in reporting, but he chose to focus on the portrait: staged photographs, nudes, celebrities, family, strangers—he always shot with the goal of extracting the contents of his subjects’ minds and making it appear on their faces. Without indulgence or sentimentality, he photographed David Lynch, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Bernardo Bertolucci, Abel Ferrara, Jonathan Caouette, Bertrand Blier, Hanna Schygulla and Thierry Niang, exhibiting his work in Paris, Marseille and Arles.
