Bruno FABBRIS is a French photographer. He was born in the Champagne region of France but later moved to Paris where he studied drawing and painting by taking art classes in several art ateliers in the city. After more than five years of awakening and studying different forms of expression under the influence of great impressionist and light painters, he discovered the work of photographers such as: Guy Bourdin, Jeanloup Sieff, Herb Ritts, Newton, Avedon, Paulo Roversi and many more…, all artists recognized as such and whose iconic works helped to establish photography among fine arts. . Naturally, he developed a growing taste and interest for black and white photography. First, he photographed his own environment, before expanding his repertoire to young actors and finally to his first mannequins. Self -taught, he mastered outdoors shooting and also studio techniques. His high level of exigency and his constant need for coherence in his work lead him to learn darkroom techniques making his own prints and spending long nights in his lab. Soon, the editorial and commercial works assignments, lead him not only to approach color but also to adopt a new perspective and focus on new subjects.
From now on, color, in a unique and distinctive style can be seen throughout his body of work and becomes part of his artistic approach, using a range of black, gray and brown, almost in monochrome.
Later, he will switch to digital but will still personally retouch his work, maintaining his desire to control the purpose and the quality of his pictures. He only seeks to correct the aberrations of the shot while respecting the integrity of the image, the naturalness of the skin and the light. For him, the possibilities offered by editing software should never be a substitute for his previous studio work.
Regularly, on the sidelines of his assignments, he realizes series of limited edition fifteen images, that he calls “collections”. With his collaborator Nathalie RUTILI, a stylist with a haute couture fashion shows background, they define and select one of a kind fabrics and materials to dress silhouettes with ethnic personalities.
Besides these stylized series, he also works on his favorite subject to photograph: skin…the lines and volumes of the body when it becomes almost abstract, the beauty of black skins and their incredible ability to capture light, their natural glow in opposition to the matness of white skins or together in contrasting complementarity, the details of a hand, an eye, a mouth or a shoulder,
Passionate about the light, the emotion of the instant captured that the retina and the memory struggle to catch and print, he is fascinated by the unpredictability of the image. For him, the strength and the purpose of a photograph is its ability to capture a fleeting moment that is gone forever. The movement of a body, the shadow of a cloud on the landscape, the brightness in the eyes, the movement of a garment, a bird flying by…are all unique moments to be captured.