Tête-à-Tête

The New York based Visual Artist, Martine Fougeron’ talks exclusively to FotoTV subscribers about her Tête-à-Tête project. In this video she describes how she went about shooting the intimate photographic portraits of her adolescent sons. The photographs from this Tête-à-Tête project, have been widely exhibited and is in the collections of both private collectors and museums.

Having started her career in Perfumerie, Martine remarks that perfumerie and photography are interconnected, because they both appeal to one of the five basic senses of a human being! Her narration of the way she went about taking the pictures of her two adolescent sons, despite their apprehension and indifference to the camera, is certainly interesting.

Martine also explains how as a child she derived inspiration from studying painting and sculpture masterpieces. Painting and Photography are her first love, she claims. She keenly observed and studied light in living portraiture. And today, as a photographer, she uses lighting to add significance to a simple situation and tell her story of the way she sees the world.