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Fred Meylan
Starting out as a photographer in the french army, Fred got hired by the prestigious Sygma Agency ( now known as Corbis) as a photo-reporter. In the same agency he turned to shoot celebrities like Monica Bellucci, Uma Thurman, Pénélope Cruz... then went onto fashion photography working in USA and Europe. Soon after Frederic started also to direct TV commercials. In 2000 he launched into a more personnal type work, deforming the human body and exhibiting his work in 2000 and 2006 at the Gallery Laurent Strouk in Paris and Opéra Gallery à New York. Well known in the Fashion Business for his lifestyle images, he concentrate his talent on capturing right moments instead of retouching it. Companies including L'Oreal, Nike, American Express, Clarins, Lacoste, Zadig et Voltaire, Galeries Lafayette, Peugeot, Ba&sh, Lancaster, Pataugas, Dim, Guess... have hired him to do their photos. He is at the start of french and now international brand Zadig et Voltaire, shooting and working also on the creation with artistic director Emmanuel Brunet for most of the advertising campaigns. In 2013 he launched his own studio in Paris rue Saint Honoré in front of Colette shop.

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