

ROADMOVIE MERKMALE FULL
Mastering the art of concision, the short stories he tells are full of poetry and humour.
ROADMOVIE MERKMALE PROFESSIONAL
Rémi uses his professional background in advertising, as well as his culture of photography and literature, to play with words and images, and so doing, frequently dialogues with his masters (Kerouac, Hooper, Courbet and Fontana, to name a few). He revisits the archetypes of the American myth: the motels with their illuminated signs, the deserts and the highways that cut through them. The landscapes he travels through, cradle of the American civilization, constitues his infinite source of inspiration.

He will soon make it his favorite playground, an open-air XXL studio! From this very first American journey, he created a unique creation process, whereby he spends a full year preparing his images before going on his annual ten-day trip and shoot. It wasn't long until he decided to leave his Parisian studio for the American far West.
ROADMOVIE MERKMALE FREE
He was 30 when he set his desire for images free and produced a few still lifes at his place, in Paris. Rémi didn't start photography at the age of 6 with his grandfather's Rolleiflex, even tough he only uses traditional film cameras. His photographs, carrying a deep sense of freedom - that same freedom sought after by most travellers -, brilliantly mingles imagination with reality. Rémi Noël is a poet, a poet who uses images as his main language. His work has the remarkable ability to catch the attention at the very first glimpse, his visual haikus make the visitors smile, his images caress their soul. With an acute sense of scenery, the stories he tells are full of poetry and humour. His photographs, carrying a deep sense of freedom - that same freedom sought after by most travelers -, brilliantly mingles imagination with reality. With a solid culture of photography and literature, he plays with words and images, and so doing, frequently dialogues with his masters (Kerouac, Hopper, Courbet and Fontana, to name a few). The message is always very clear, the humour never far away and the poetry well anchored. As a photographer, he strives to tell short stories too, stories captured at a glance. He prefers short stories to novellas, and in cinema, short films are his favorites.

With his background in advertising, Rémi Noël likes to be concise. This is where he determinedly searches for the ideal setting for his productions. There, he revisits the archetypes of the American myth: the motels with their illuminated signs, the deserts and the highways that cut through them. But it wasn’t long until he decided to leave his Parisian studio for the American far West.įrom this very first American journey, he fine-tuned a unique creation process: all year round he conceives his images, sketches them, then, for about ten days, he heads West, cradle of the American civilization, that had become his infinite source of inspiration. He was in fact 30 when he set his desire for images free and produced a few still lifes at his place, in Paris.

