BIOGRAPHICAL CATALOG OF THE MODEM'S COVERS AUTHORS

18 ARTIST / PHOTOGRAPHER “The French serials photographer” Charles Fréger , born in Bourges in 1975, he is a graduate of the Rouen Art School. He dedicates himself to the poetic and anthropological representation of social groups such as sportsmen, pupils and soldiers etc. The style of the photos are often similar (viewpoint, color, lighting, distance between the photographer and his subject). Charles Fréger’ s work thus questions the boundaries between individual and collective identity. His portraits, although poetic, are far from psychological. There’s nothing picturesque about them either. He photographs his subjects like an entomologist pins his insects. There’s also a touch of sociology and ethno- logy with his inexhaustible inventories of the most extraordinarily diverse social groups, many of which are slowly becoming extinct. These archives of social bodies, in a state of mutation, these families of mankind, if you like, are docu- mented on a human scale, and free of embarrassing sentimentality; they form the inventory of this 34-year-old French photographer. He is also the founder of the artistic community Piece of Cake and of the POC publishing hous Charles Fréger is also the author of different books. His photographic series have been exposed in different Museums and Art Centres . The images in this Modem Europe edition are part of the book “ Wilder Mann” The French version is published by Thames&Hudson. The English one is made by Dewi Lewis publisher. The Italian version is made by Peliti associati and the German one is made by Kehrer. Modem Europe Spring-Summer 2013 Cover by CHARLES FRÉGER 2012