Dehydrated, immolated by fire, frozen in liquid nitrogen, exploded, crushed, stoned, cut up, the register of tortures expands as the sessions progress. Beauty, fragility, chaos, destruction, an ambiguous attraction that the photographer questions.
If Stéphane Coutelle is best known for his portraits, nudes and beauty pictures, he has also produced many still lifes, notably in his latest book 2020, published by La Belle Etoile * editions. Stephane Coutelle is the author of five books: Me Myself & I (1995), Shoebox Studio (2011), Insomnies (2014), Carbone (2019) and 2020 (2021).