In Anne Bourgeois-Vignon's work, the emotion is always close to the surface - but being an artist who consistently plays with layers of meaning, it's not always certain which emotions are being articulated.
Maybe it's inevitable, this ambiguity, this sense of being 'in-between', coming as it does from a photographer who was born in France yet left her home country in her teens to pursue an artistic career in London. Her adopted city was an early subject, resulting in pictures which, as she herself explains, show London as both "beautiful" and "threatening", a conjunction that might not be obvious to natives of the capital.
Exposing a new way of looking at familiar spaces is a theme which runs throughout Anne's work. Yet she is not a photographer with a detached eye - indeed, her portraiture proves she's an artist who is equally at home drawing new and surprising responses from the people around her, as much as the empty vistas which are so atmospherically rendered in series like "Entre Deux".
In the past few months, Anne has completed an MA in fine art photography at Westminster; had photographs published in magazines such as Classic FM, Inspired Living, London Loop, as well as on various websites; shot radio DJs such as Lucio and Richard Bacon, and stars of the classical music world such as John Lill; and recently had her portrait of Dan Todman appear on the cover of his book.
She currently works as a freelance photographer and magazine picture editor in London.
Anne Bourgeois-Vignon
+44 7903 502 323
anne@beanshoot.co.uk
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