Antoine Schneck

A French visual artist and photographer, Antoine Schneck embraced digital photography at a very early stage, appreciating its exceptional quality and creative potential. Since then, his work has evolved in series, shaped by his travels, his inspirations and his projects, always centred on encounters.

In addition to his portraits taken all over the world, his black-background photographs also include a series of famous dogs for the Museum of Hunting and Nature, of thousand-year-old olive trees, of First World War soldiers atop the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, and of the recumbent statues in the Basilica of Saint-Denis for the Centre des monuments nationaux.

In recent years, he has explored other techniques, notably the wet collodion process, which he used to create a series on flowers and carburettors. He is currently working on a new series of photographs of French artists in their studios, recomposing the image and multiplying the subject across the space.

His work as a visual artist also owes much to techniques drawn from the history of classical painting, particularly in terms of the use of light and retouching with a painting palette.