Miron Landreau was born 1976 at the Atlantic coast in France. As the son of an artist and a photographer he began to take pictures since his very early years and learned photography as an autodidact.
He worked several years as a journalist for different Swiss and German newspapers and as photographer of the Vitra Design Museum in Germany.
Since 1998 he works on several personal thematic projects. His pictures are taken mostly on his trips - from Paris to Havanna, from Portugal to South Africa - putting his focus over all on portraiture.
His "old fashioned" style - mostly sepia and b/w analogue pictures that are taken with almost antique cameras as Rolleiflex, Walzflex, Mamiya 6x7 and a heavy Nikon from the 70's - is somehow natural, simple and pure and is often kept in dark nuances and keep a certain naturalness, intimacy and simplicity. With a mainly silent way of expression and a total absence of any action, as well as the choice of the subjects and topics, he generally reflects a certain poetic melancholy and sadness in his work. Subjects as death, transience and time is therefore a central leitmotif of his pictures.
