Eloïse Labarbe Lafon

Eloïse Labarbe-Lafon is a French visual photographer. The artist experiments on the preciousness of the image-object through frozen moments on black and white silver film, which she then colors with oil paint, using her brushes or the pulp of her fingers. Alongside her photographic practice, she has studied art history and cinema, worked as a film restorer and has colored documentary archives. Her painted photos are sometimes framed with glass and lead structures, stained-glass windows that she fashions herself, tailor-made for each image. Using glazes of oil paint, transparent or opaque tinted glass, these techniques combine to create intimate worlds in which Eloïse reinvents reality.