Overview
"His photography practice is about interaction, frailty, overflow. He captures the moments of nothingness, the unexpected as much as the predictable, the blooming  as much as the outbreak,  the imagination as much as the ordinariness."

Julie Guiyot-Corteville

Head Curator of the Museum of French Photography

Series
Works
  • Alain Laboile, Polaire, 2023
    Alain Laboile
    Polaire, 2023
  • Alain Laboile, Anadyomène, 2022
    Alain Laboile
    Anadyomène, 2022
  • Alain Laboile, Chamanique, 2022
    Alain Laboile
    Chamanique, 2022
  • Alain Laboile, Cosmique, 2022
    Alain Laboile
    Cosmique, 2022
  • Alain Laboile, Métamorphe, 2022
    Alain Laboile
    Métamorphe, 2022
  • Alain Laboile, Nil and Lili, 2013
    Alain Laboile
    Nil and Lili, 2013
  • Alain Laboile, Appuis, 2013
    Alain Laboile
    Appuis, 2013
  • Alain Laboile, Car Wash, 2012
    Alain Laboile
    Car Wash, 2012
  • Alain Laboile, Coq, 2012
    Alain Laboile
    Coq, 2012
  • Alain Laboile, Drops and Dots, 2014
    Alain Laboile
    Drops and Dots, 2014
  • Alain Laboile, Élan, 2014
    Alain Laboile
    Élan, 2014
  • Alain Laboile, En attendant le facteur, 2007
    Alain Laboile
    En attendant le facteur, 2007
  • Alain Laboile, Etoiles, 2012
    Alain Laboile
    Etoiles, 2012
  • Alain Laboile, Feu de la Saint Jean, 2010
    Alain Laboile
    Feu de la Saint Jean, 2010
  • Alain Laboile, Grayscale, 2013
    Alain Laboile
    Grayscale, 2013
  • Alain Laboile, Jour de fête, 2013
    Alain Laboile
    Jour de fête, 2013
  • Alain Laboile, L'éclipse, 2013
    Alain Laboile
    L'éclipse, 2013
  • Alain Laboile, L'oreille, 2013
    Alain Laboile
    L'oreille, 2013
  • Alain Laboile, La botte secrète, 2013
    Alain Laboile
    La botte secrète, 2013
  • Alain Laboile, La Bouée, 2015
    Alain Laboile
    La Bouée, 2015
  • Alain Laboile, La censure, 2013
    Alain Laboile
    La censure, 2013
  • Alain Laboile, La Chasse, 2012
    Alain Laboile
    La Chasse, 2012
  • Alain Laboile, La Chute, 2016
    Alain Laboile
    La Chute, 2016
  • Alain Laboile, La Traversée, 2015
    Alain Laboile
    La Traversée, 2015
  • Alain Laboile, Le Bouquet, 2014
    Alain Laboile
    Le Bouquet, 2014
  • Alain Laboile, Le Coffre Fort, 2014
    Alain Laboile
    Le Coffre Fort, 2014
  • Alain Laboile, Les Bocaux, 2012
    Alain Laboile
    Les Bocaux, 2012
  • Alain Laboile, Lili, 2013
    Alain Laboile
    Lili, 2013
  • Alain Laboile, Nid, 2013
    Alain Laboile
    Nid, 2013
  • Alain Laboile, Peinture à l'eau, 2012
    Alain Laboile
    Peinture à l'eau, 2012
  • Alain Laboile, Pollock, 2016
    Alain Laboile
    Pollock, 2016
  • Alain Laboile, Réservoir chicken, 2011
    Alain Laboile
    Réservoir chicken, 2011
  • Alain Laboile, Scotch, 2013
    Alain Laboile
    Scotch, 2013
  • Alain Laboile, Seed, 2016
    Alain Laboile
    Seed, 2016
  • Alain Laboile, Starfish, 2016
    Alain Laboile
    Starfish, 2016
  • Alain Laboile, Sur un nuage, 2016
    Alain Laboile
    Sur un nuage, 2016
  • Alain Laboile, Swing, 2012
    Alain Laboile
    Swing, 2012
  • Alain Laboile, Terre, 2011
    Alain Laboile
    Terre, 2011
  • Alain Laboile, Upside Down, 2017
    Alain Laboile
    Upside Down, 2017
  • Alain Laboile, Vestale, 2014
    Alain Laboile
    Vestale, 2014
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Biography

Self-taught photographer, Alain Laboile brings us through the pictures of his six children, fragments of a refuge where childhood extends as the seasons pass. While his photographic vocabulary might recall the likes of Sally Mann, the story he tells is different. Not an anthropologist nor a socio-analyst, he creates through his photographs the cosmogony of his family. Out of the accepted norm, his children embrace nature at large: their own as much as the one that surrounds them. Beyond documenting their childhood, Laboile writes a visual poem of innocence where the environment plays a full-fledged role in the narration. The rustle of dry leaves, the splashes of the water the mewing of cats, fuse with the children's bursts of laughter, shouts and whispers. Detached from the ambient anxiety, Laboile's images radiate with their intrinsic instantaneity and simplicity.

 

While his photographic career started on the late, Alain Laboile has made a name for himself in the French photography field. Awarded the 2019 Global Peace Award for his photo book "La Dispute" published by Les Arènes, he was also granted the HiP (Youth photo book category) the same year. Additionally, the French Museum of Photography has also acknowledged his oeuvre through the addition of 32 of his prints to their collection in 2014.

 

Alain Laboile was born in 1968 in Bordeaux, France, where he still lives and works with his wife and six children.

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