Jean Fran%C3%A7ois Lepage
JeanFranois Lepage , is a French photographer and painter. He lives and works in Paris.
Lepage was born in Paris, France in 1960. He was first introduced to photography by his uncle who was art director at Cosmopolitan magazine. He then discovers the work of the street photographers Henri Cartier Bresson, William Eugene Smith and Robert Frank as well as the fashion photographers Erwin Blumenfeld, Helmut Newton and Guy Bourdin. In 1977, JeanFranois Lepage left school before graduating and worked at the post office. Two years later, after a oneyear trip to the United States and Mexico, Lepage joined the photographers assistant team of the MarieClaire magazine studio in Paris. He started his photographic career in 1980 and made his first exhibition of portraits of the French actress isabelle Adjani in 1983. His early photographs featured in magazines such as Depeche Mode, Jill Magazine, Vogue UK and Cond Nast Publications in Italy. After the birth of his son Vincent, JeanFranois Lepage began to devote himself to drawing and painting in 1987. During his selfimposed exile from
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