Eric Baudelaire Overview

Eric Baudelaire Winner of the 2003 Photographer Grant AWARD-WINNING PROJECT: a photographic journey along eastern borders - from Turkey to the edge of the Caucasus and the Middle East - to track the potential future borders of Europe. Eric Baudelaire has... [more]

Eric Baudelaire Winner of the 2003 Photographer Grant AWARD-WINNING PROJECT: a photographic journey along eastern borders - from Turkey to the edge of the Caucasus and the Middle East - to track the potential future borders of Europe. Eric Baudelaire has never followed a prearranged path. His life has been one lucky coincidence after another, all leading him to photography. But is it all down to luck? Not really, since he grew up surrounded by photography, with a father and an uncle who were both professional photographers. After passing his baccalaureate in economics, Eric pursued studies in the United States, where he lived for 10 years. He read political science at Brown University, specializing in Middle Eastern conflicts, and then headed to New York, where he worked in the Internet business before dropping everything in 2000 for photography. He works in the print press (Les Inrockuptibles and Liberation) and on book projects (with the Jean-Michel Place publishing house). He returned to Paris in 2002 to focus specifically on documentary photography. He wanted to give himself time to think and to immerse himself in people and places in order to understand their hidden worlds. He became absorbed by the concept of borders, which he considers invisible yet ever-changing lines that lay the foundations for the history of mankind. For him, photography is a way to put faces and landscapes in the historical picture, helping him to understand the destiny and development of the human race. [show less]