Brigitte Lacombe
followed her dream and dropped out of high school at age 17 to pursue the
medium. She took her first camera, a Nikon F, given to her by her father. And
began working at Elle in Paris. French photographer Brigitte Lacombe now loves
in New York City.
Brigitte solo
exhibit “Brigitte Lacombe: Complicites” is on view at PHILLIPS Galleries in New
York. Her loves are portraits and travel. She works as a special photographer
on the films of Martin Scorsese, Spike Jonze, Bennett Miller, Sam Mendes,
Michael Haneke, David Mamet, Quentin Tarantino, James Gray, among others.
She contributes to
Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Financial Times
Magazine, New York Magazine, German Vogue, Zeit Magazine, Neue Journal, and
many others.
Brigitte was awarded
The Eisenstaedt Award for Travel Photography in 2000. The Art Directors Club
Hall of Fame “Lifetime Achievement Award for Photography” in 2010. And the
Lucie Award for “Achievement in Travel and Portraiture” in 2012.
Brigitte is currently at work on her third book of
personal photo’s to be published in 2017.
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