Brief Bio :
Laurent Barrera was born in 1966 in Marseille and spent his childhood between the South Pacific and Provence.
He began a career as a geological engineer on the indian ocean before becoming a winemaker in organic farming in Provence. His travels to export his wines brought him many times to Japan where he discovered an aesthetic and a relationship to Beauty that would strongly influence his artistic activity.
Laurent Barrera wins in 2019 the grand prize of the Arles photo contest chaired by Sam Stourdzé for the 50th anniversary of the festival and the 100th anniversary of Olympus.
He settled as an artist photographer in 2021 and began exhibiting in several festivals (Photomenton, Rencontres du Prieuré de Salaize and Photo nature in Le Havre, Nuit de la photographie de Pierrevert, Besançon, Présence Photographie à Montélimar etc…).
He is also the Author of the photobook « Koï » who won the first prize in the 2022 international festival of Namur (Belgium) category photobook.
Artist statement :
Nature is my privileged field of expression and my primary source of inspiration. The wonder aroused by his show is the starting point of my work. I relentlessly search for new configurations of light and colors that sublimate reality.
These are synonymous with mystery and have an impalpable dimension that I try to transcribe with my images.
Everyone is invited, on this occasion, to dive into this universe formed by unique and non-replicable moments.
I like that an exchange is born between the image created and the viewer who observes it. It is important to me that my shots and their composition are refined and that they can thus reveal their essence.
