Untitled, 2010
C-print on aluminium
62 x 78 cm

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Untitled, 2008
C-print on aluminium
100 x 128 cm / 74 x 94 cm / 45 x 58 cm

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Rainy Silence. 2007
C-print on aluminium
74 x 94 cm / 45 x 58 cm

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Untitled, 2009
C-print on aluminium
100 x 128 cm / 74 x 94 cm / 45 x 58 cm

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Untitled (dos), 2009
C-print on aluminium
100×128 cm / 74 x 94 cm / 45×58

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Untitled, 2007
C-print on aluminium
100 x 128 cm / 74 x 94 cm / 45 x 58 cm

all images Courtesy les Filles Du Calvaire

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LAURA HENNO is a French photographer whose work primarily explores teenagers or very young people lost in their musings or suddenly immobilised by something out of our perception. In fact each photograph is carefully staged and generates its own fictional space both tangible and intangible.

The notions of uncertainty and doubt predominate in my work. There’s always something indiscernible, which hovers over my characters. The young people I photograph appear as characters from a narrative but we will never know anything about their history, about what they’re looking at or what they’re looking for. My photographs are reminiscent of different codes like film or painting, which also contributes to the feeling of ‘in between’ that characterizes my work.

I think the way I work is similar to a film director.First I imagine a picture and then I draw it. I study the construction of the picture before working with my camera. I often have a precise idea of the atmosphere I want, which I try to achieve working solely with natural light. Each picture is built little by little as I look first for the place and then the people I want to photograph. Sometimes I work with people I know and sometimes I cast my ‘characters’ in the street. – LAURA HENNO for Wallpaper in 2007

She lives and works in Lille. After studying photography at the National School of Visual Arts of La Cambre in Brussels, she joined the National Studio of Contemporary Arts Fresnoy to continue his photographic work there and made his first short film in 2003. She also works in the artists’ collective Qubo Gas. In 2007, she received the Discovery Award Rencontres d’Arles.

And good news: her book entitled Summer Crossing is available at Filigranes Editions