Pierre Abensur started in photography as self-taught in the 80s. Very fast, he turns his work to the humanist stories. He obtains his first publications in local newspapers and magazines that will turn to regular collaborations. His photos have been published in newspapers and magazines mainly in Europ but also in USA.
Beside his regular assignments for a dayly newspapers in Geneva, he works on stories in foreign countries, mostly crisis and living conditions of ethnic or religious minorities. The economic difficulties that strike the print medias in the récent passed years encouraged him to diversify his work and turn to more intimistics photo projects. In 2008, he started with a 4x5 chamber a sery with hunters posing with their taxidermised trophies on the spot where the hunt had gone.
Our relationship with animals (and hunting) is complicated and at times contradictory. These highly stylized portraits of hunters with their trophies push to an extreme—and in doing so, force us to re-examine our own presumptions.
