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Biography
Lucie de Barbuat (French, b. 1981) and Simon Brodbeck (German, b. 1986, son of photographer Peter Lindbergh), have been working together in New York and Paris since 2005 as Lucie & Simon.

Influences
Often using modern technological means such as montages, 3D computer creation, or mixing photographic and video techniques, Lucie & Simon's work consists of strong visual set-ups, often playing on the frontier between "reality and unreal" and inspired by Romantic painters such as Caspar David Friedrich, Antoine-Jean Gros or Théodore Géricault, but also science-fiction and German Expressionism.

Recent Work
‘’Silent World’’, is comprised of 40 photographs. Taken between 2009 and 2012, Lucie & Simon chose to highlight symbolic and typically crowded international locations in China, USA, France and Italy — but strikingly devoid of human presence.

The project is rounded out by 3 videos, each 0’59’’, and a 7 minute film with music by Philip Glass and Daft Punk, 2012. This work will be exhibited soon at Rencontres d’Arles in 2012, and in their upcoming solo exhibition at FoMu, Fotomuseum Antwerp, Belgium.

In ‘’Scenes of Life’’ Lucie & Simon inspire us to reconsider everyday scenes by asking us to look down from above on the aftermath of picnics, fishing in the pond, or resting after birth on the maternity ward. It’s provocative perspective, like mirrors on the ceiling of everyday life, reflecting on our selves.

Awards
Their work has been recognized and awarded most recently in France and internationally by the HSBC Award for Photography 2010, the Marcel Bleustein-Banchet Foundation Prize, the Nestlé Award for contemporary art, and the Talent Award in association with the Bibliothèque nationale de France in 2009.


 * 2010: Award winner of Prix HSBC pour la Photographie
 * 2010: Award nominee at Audi Talents Awards, Contemporary Art
 * 2009: Award winner of Fondation Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet
 * 2009: Award winner of Prix international de photographie de Vevey, Nestlé prize, Switzerland
 * 2009: Award winner of Bourse du talent, Bibliothèque nationale de France
 * 2009: Award nominee at Prix de l’Académie des Beaux Arts

Projects

 * 2012-2014: Human, installations and video projections
 * 2012-2013: Space and the universe, videos
 * 2010-2013: Living images, installations and video projections
 * 2009-2012: Silent world, photographs and videos
 * 2010-2011: Le Pays imaginaire, photographs
 * 2006-2009: Scenes of life, Vertiges du quotidien, photographs
 * 2004-2008: Earth vision, photographs