Stéphane Sednaoui

Stéphane Sednaoui is a French music video director photographer film producer and actor He has worked in various forms of media including music videos photojournalism portrait photography fashion and pop culture Sednaouis career began as a casting director for advertising campaigns and modeling for photographers and artists at age 18 At age 21 he began doing portraits for various publications later photographing designers and models Sednaoui has directed over 40 music videos including Give It Away and Scar Tissue Red Hot Chili Peppers Sly Massive Attack Mysterious Ways U2 Big Time Sensuality Björk Fever Madonna German Bold Italic Towa Tei feat Kylie Minogue and Queer Garbage As a photojournalist he covered such events as the Romanian Revolution of 1989 and the 2001 September 11 attack of the World Trade Center He has also been a regular contributor to Vogue Italia Vogue China Vanity Fair The New York Times Magazine Interview and Visionaire as a fashion and portrait photographer Over the years Sednaoui has redefined his artistic approach to focus on his fineart and cinematographic projects New and existing work have been exhibited recently at the MoMA New York 2015 the National September 11 Memorial Museum 20132015 New York the Brooklyn Museum New York 2013 the Barbican Center London 2014 Le Grand Palais Paris 2015 the National Gallery of Victoria Melbourne 2014 and in a solo exhibition at the Sam Art Projects Foundation Paris 2013 In 2005 his work with music videos was included in Palm Picturess Directors Label a series of DVDs compiling the work of notable music video directors Although Sednaoui never received formal training as a photographer or director it was with the support of two major artists William Klein and JeanPaul Gaultier that he shaped his artistic approach between the ages of 18 and 22 At 18 he started as a casting director for advertising campaigns before passing in front of the camera to become the face of JeanPaul Gaultiers brand for two years 19821984 Through this collaboration he modeled for photographers Steven Meisel and Peter Lindbergh and for artist Andy Warhol and William Klein At 21 he was offered by his mentor photographerdirector William Klein to be the casting director of the docufiction movie Mode in France 1985 At 22 he was a dancer in the French choreographer Régine Chopinots creation Le Défilé 1985 for which JeanPaul Gaultier was collaborating by creating the costumes The JeanPaul Gaultier William Klein and Regine Chopinot collaborations were documented by Sednaoui and shown years later his pictures of GaultierChopinot were exhibited in 2007 at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs of the Louvre and his experience with William Klein was published in 2009 as a portfolio in the French magazine Paradis Impregnated with the most experimental side of his masters work William Klein Robert Frank Bill Brandt Sednaouis first photographic projects were in the form of abstract Photographic essays Source Article Stéphane Sednaoui from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30