The temporary exhibition "What’s New in the Studio" - A Couple in Venice to Bodyscape - When the masks fall away to make room for pure line.

Updated on 27 June 2026

Here we are already: it is the last week of our monthly cycle. To conclude this visual adventure, it’s the turn of What’s New in the Studio. This is often where I gather my most recent work, my lighting research or my technical favourites. Whether complex portraits or cinematic stagings, this category is the laboratory of my latest inspirations. It is my way of ending the month with you on a strong, creative note.

A Couple in Venice to Bodyscape When the masks fall away to make room for pure line

From Venice to Bodyscape - When the masks fall away to make room for pure line

Art photography often begins with a pretext, a decorum. For this studio session, everything started around Venetian splendour: a couple in Venice, golden masks, fabrics, an atmosphere of baroque festivity where sensuality can be sensed beneath the mystery. But my sculptor’s past always catches up with me. Very quickly, the accessories became superfluous. What interested me was not the folklore of Venice, it was the dramatic tension between two beings, the way the light caught the relief of a mask before gliding over a back, a shoulder, a hip.

We carried out a real deconstruction during the session. The festive gave way to the graphic. Switching to a radical black-and-white duo, I wanted to work the bodyscape technique the way one carves a block of marble. Here, the couple does not pose: it builds itself into architecture. Under my flashes, the two bodies merge to form a single landscape of lines, hollows and solids. The texture of the skin becomes the very grain of the photo, a dense, almost palpable matter.

This is the whole art of the nude as I conceive it. We are light-years from the passive gaze. There is a raw power in the collaboration with this magnificent couple. The contrast is violent, the black is abyssal, the white is a caress of raking light that outlines the silhouettes. The dreaminess of the first part has changed into a sacred, fleshly geometry. This logbook bears witness to that transition: destroying artifice to reveal the essential, the truth of a curve, the force of a shared instant under the spotlights. These are no longer two models miming a party, it is a living sculpture captured in the shadow of the studio.

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And so our month in images comes to an end. I hope you enjoyed discovering these four series as much as I enjoyed creating them. If you missed an episode or want to dive without limit into all of these galleries (and the previous ones), the Pass remains the best way to support my work and miss nothing. Thank you for your loyalty, and see you next month for new stories!

Yohann

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