FRANKFURT.- For more than 20 years, the Bremen-born photographer Vincent Peters has ranked among the top international fashion and portrait photographers. Clients such as Dior, Louis Vuitton, and Yves Saint Laurent as well as publications in magazines such as VOGUE, ELLE, Numéro, GQ, Esquire, and Harper's Bazaar, lend his work a continuous and visible presence worldwide. His first book, The Light Between Us, enjoyed great popularity, and toured as an exhibition through various countries and cities from 2015 to 2016. Not only does Peters master the glamorous and dramatic, Hollywood-inspired staging of international stars such as Charlize Theron, Penélope Cruz, Laetitia Casta, and Alexander McQueen: in his second book, Personal, he also reveals another side that is more personal and sometimes more intimate.
The Leica Gallery Frankfurt is presenting new works by Vincent Peters across 1000 square meters. Through this collection of star portraits, this solo exhibition invites visitors to experience a more private side of the photographer. With tender, emotive ballet scenes reminiscent of the visual world painted by Degas, Peters takes viewers on a journey through his portfolio. Here, fashionably styled images that radiate a sense of classic elegance can be found alongside pure nudes in minimalist settings, while tension-filled hotel situations are juxtaposed with direct and intimate close-ups. Common to all of the images are Peters's use of analogue photography and his skilled lighting that enables a nameless model to appear as beautiful as a Hollywood headliner.
Vincent Peters lives and works in Paris, Ibiza, and New York.
Published in September 2016 by teNeues; 28.5 x 35 cm, 240 pages, with a foreword by Dr. Matthias Harder, hardcover, 15 color and 235 duplex photographs, text in English, German, and French, price: €98, ISBN: 978-3-8327-3409-1 // A portion of the proceeds from this book will be donated to the Haus der kurzen Wege, the family justice center at the Charité Hospital in Berlin.
Founded in 1910, Traditionshaus Rahn AG is a photo & fine art business with an integrated Leica Gallery. In addition to technology for analogue and digital Leica cameras, Rahn AG also offers a wide range of photography books, books, and photographic art. Following extensive planning, an innovative space concept was opened at a new location on November 1, 2015. Since then, Leica Camera AG, in cooperation with Rahn AG Foto & Fine Art, have offered under the new name, Leica Camera Frankfurt GmbH, a new photography gallery concept across three levels and 1000 m². The gallery was recently recognized by the Iconic Awards 2016 in the category "Interior," as well as by the German Design Award 2017 for its "Retail Architecture." Awaiting visitors is not only a multifaceted exhibition program featuring nationally and internationally known photographers, along with seminars, photography excursions, and Photographica auctions, but also a place to stay and engage with photography on a variety of different levels.
