Gregory Herpe - Photographer

Biography

He was born in Paris in 1969.

As photojournalist for press agency Sopa Images, Hong-Kong, and Polaris Images, New-York, he devoted much of his time to black & white & gray artistic photography, which he exhibited in many countries.

The human being, the urban, the organization of society and the weight of customs are his favorite subjects and he always shows three things in his photos: a message, a perspective, and emotion.

For him, removing the colors is like taking off make-up from an actor, a woman or a clown: only the essential remains, the truth, pure emotion, sometimes crude but real.

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He photographed the Drag Queens in Europe, little girls rescued from prostitution in Cambodia, IRA soldiers in Belfast, endangered animals in Africa, the minimalist landscapes of Northern Europe, Gypsies in southern France, and war zones.

But also as a portrait artists and set photographer he photographed celebrities of rock and cinema like David Bowie, Gérard Depardieu, Iggy Pop, Deep Purple, Nina Hagen, Jacques Dutronc, Patti Smith, Orelsan, etc.

He regularly works with NGO’s to talk about their actions.

His images have been exhibited in Galleries and museums in Paris, Barcelona, ​​Boston, San Diego, Bristol, Amsterdam, Brussels, Genoa, Spa, Porto, Zurich, Athens, in Sicily, South Korea, India, Panama, Nigeria, and in the European Parliament of Brussels & Strasbourg, etc.

And published in France, Great Britain, USA, Austria, Russia, Monaco, the Netherlands, Thailand, Switzerland, Spain, Italy, Poland, Greece, Slovakia, Romania, Panama, etc.

He is as well a journalist and writer for various magazines in France and England.

And also:

He was a journalist for various media (NRJ, Fun Radio and Fun TV, in Paris, RTL / TVI in Brussels), and for various magazines.

Pupil of Francis Huster at the Cours Florent (famous theater school), with his friends Jean-Paul Rouve, Edouard Baer, ​​Jeanne Balibar

and Eric Ruf (current director of the Comédie Française), and he was an actor and director.