Issue 107 - June 2024

What does photography mean to you? I believe that
photography can be defined in 3 words : emotion,
authenticity and temporality ! To be moved by a picture,
it must be true. Photography stops a time, a moment,
and if this moment moves people, that’s a timeless
photo. This is what photography means to me !
Please briefly describe your photography style for our
readers? My photography style is the result of the identity
I got during all my photography experience’s years.
First of all, my style is the feeling : no photography’s
techniques, only the feeling to catch this one moment,
this one glance, this one emotion I want to transmit.
With fashion photography, even if technique is important,
I accept to be wrong sometimes if I catch the perfect
glance or the perfect fashion attitude. Nowadays,
you can change a technical mistake with all the editing
photography tools, but you can’t change a wrong moment
by a perfect one. Evidently, I always put a high
priority on light, but before all I focus on the human
aspects. I lead the models to perform with their emotions,
their truths, and their own personality!
Model FATI CHERRAK
Where do you get inspiration from? I guess that I get my
inspiration from the work of my favorite photographers,
as a mix of different styles :
- « Temporality » with the work of the 20th century
humanist photographers that inspired me a lot ;
- « Emotions » with the work of Sebastiao Salgado that
makes me understand that your photography must
transmit a message ;
- « Authenticity » with the fashion and non editing work
of Peter Lindbergh. In fashion photography, my favorite
photographer is Peter Lindbergh, for his black and white
strong and true pictures. But the photographer who has
mostly inspired my artistic work, for the way to frame
and build a photo, is Jean-Loup Sieff. The way you frame
and you built your photos is your own artistic identity.
Model THEO
Would you consider yourself a hobbyist or a paid professional?
I’m not a full-time professional photographer.
But now, I consider myself as a paid professional photographer
in the fashion photography field. I am available
for testing models for model agencies, for model’s
books and other works with clothes’ brands. During the
last 3 years, I did some 40 publications in more than 15
different fashion magazines with 35 fashion editorials, 5
back covers and 10 front covers. I especially thanks Peter
Van Poucke, the Director of MODELLENLAND Magazine,
for giving me the great opportunity to feature severals
times in his magazine.
Issue 107 - June 2024 - Modellenland Magazine