BIOGRAPHICAL CATALOG OF THE MODEM'S COVERS AUTHORS

ARTIST / PHOTOGRAPHER 47 Modem Women’s Milano Modem Women’s Paris Spring-Summer 2013 Covers by GRÉGOIRE ALEXANDRE 2012 Grégoire Alexandre, (Rouen, 1972) is a photographer known for his signature surrealistic and poetic characteristic images. After graduating from Arles Ecole Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie, he gained his reputation in 2003 at the International Fashion and Photography Festival at Villa Noailles in Hyères . In the following years he started collaborations with magazines such as Wallpaper, Vanity Fair, Esquire UK, GQ, Beaux Arts. He realized projects in the music business with Etienne Daho, Metronomy, Yelle, Yann Tiersen; and shot ad campaigns for Westin, Sony, Printemps, Orange, Louis Vuitton, Citroën, EBay, Absolut… In 2008, Christian Lacroix, the commissioner of Arles Photography Festival, invited him to show his first personal exhibition, “ Was it a car or a cat I saw? ”. An year later, he was awarded with the sought-after HSBC prize, which provi- ded the opportunity to exhibit in Paris, Lille, Metz, Marseilles. At the same time Actes Sud editions published his monograph.