An artist is an artist because he has his own style. Her own style. It applies to painters and jazz singers, sculptors and writers. More so to photographers. Didier Carré has approached his craft, his art, like an apprentice in an ancient guild, studying every small facet: learning the rules in order to break the rules and become himself.
With Angèle, Jade, Caroline and Nataly in 1995 he began to triumph over the nude. The following year with Sophia, a black model, he tested the extent of his knowledge, capturing pure ebony skin and making it shine like oil.
With his secret blend of chemicals, considered lighting, and a range of cameras to augment his precious Fuji GX 680, Didier has developed what he calls Carré Style: a tribute to the wonder and splendour which is woman.
Gone are the days when Carré felt apprehensive asking models to strip off for him. It is 2001. A new century, a new millennium. A new age. Models are beating at the door. Sending postcards. Writing emails. Picking up the phone.
New times, new models, new concepts. The girls floating like gossamer phantoms into Pigalle are from Eastern Europe, open, friendly, eager, professional, courageous, beautiful. The scales fell from his eyes and he was aware for the first time what had been kept hidden behind the Iron Curtain.
Lots of these girls are into fetish, bondage. They perform in porn movies. Their bodies are the weapons of a new era: a new appreciation of what it is to be human. They are proud of what they do, proud of their magnificent nudity and they adore Didier Carré's haunting, sensitive, timeless black and white images.
He has a mission: to capture these treasured souls at their timeless and absolute best, to preserve them for eternity and present them as objects of art, icons of perfection: the female as goddess. This is Carré Style: an act of homage and worship.
The construction of gallery-carre.com is an invitation for those in search of truth to come and meet unforgettable women who in the pursuit of Carré's art unveil their bodies across the optics of cyber space.
They are indecent and insolent at the same time. Sophisticated and playful. Sensual and utterly feminine. They have nothing to hide. Everything to give. They can do everything. They do everything. But they are never humiliated. They hold an inner power that is pure and in exchange for the gift of their perfection we pay with a small piece of our soul.
You are looking at the girl through the screen of your computer but be careful she is also looking at you. It is a game. And you are mesmerized.
Clifford Thurlow
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