User:OohRoo31/Brigitte Lacombe

Lacombe is famous for her very raw techniques for shooting her portraits. She strives to make a pesonal and direct connection with the subject without a lot of noise. “The situation I create is devoid of production values… I try to make it as bare as possible so it’s about them as them. And that’s it.”. "“I know what once I set the tone by bringing people to a set that I want – meaning the lights, the intimacy of the space, the quietness, and the fact I stay one-on-one with them – I’m asking for the person in front of me to collaborate with me. It’s not just me imposing something; I want an exchange”

At age seventeen, Lacombe left school to pursue photography as an apprentice with the black and white lab for Elle in Paris. Her first assignment was the 1975 Cannes Film Festival.