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Artist, lives and works in Paris.
For many years, Joël Alain Dervaux has been wondering about identity and desire by favouring analogue photography as the tool for a personal quest to meet Others. He is the author of various long-term series focusing on body and intériority – Improvisations, since 2016; Récit, 2018-2021; Kler, states of presence, since 2019. Based on a diary, he also stages situations of emotional shifts in the guise of photo-novels – Quatre séquences, 2021.
He has been exhibiting his works in France : Improvisations in the summer of 2021 as part of the Promenades Photographique festival in Vendôme; Récit in the spring of 2023 at Les Photographiques festival in Le Mans and more recently Kler, states of presence as part of an individual exhibition in Paris, commissioned by Valérie Fougeirol.
His works have now been included in various collections, both public ones (Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Musée d’art moderne et contemporain de la ville de Saint-Etienne …) and private ones. In 2022, his book Improvisations was awarded the special mention of the Fedrigoni Top Awards in the ‘publications’ category.
All the work presented on this website has been done using the silver photography process.