Laurent Pinsard

Biography

Born in 1944, Laurent Pinsard attended the school of photography in Vevey, in Switzerland, and became interested in several artistic expressions, such as drawing, engraving, sculpture, architecture and photography. Aside from Europe, his assignments have led him to the Middle East, to Northern Africa, notably Morocco where his first trip took him in 1986. A pioneer in digital photography since 1995, he has published articles on this technique in many well-known specialised magazines. Nature, and more particularly, the elements that are part of it, have always been of interest to him. Of these elements, he interprets the graphic writing flowing from them, the architecture and the sculptures that are formed. This is the way he loves to photograph matter: water, sand, wood, plant life, insects… By his technical mastery and his art of composition, the nervures of a leaf become ramifications, the feather of a quill, lace, and a cluster of pebbles, real cairns.