Martial Lenoir

Martial Lenoir, fashion and portrait photographer, was born in 1971 in the Basque Country. He lives and works in Paris. He acquired his first camera, an RB67 (medium format), in October 2001. Graduating from the EFET school (École supérieure de Photographie et d'Audiovisuel) in 2003, he became an assistant photographer at Studio Daguerre in Paris, working with photographers such as Nacer Messili, Gérard Harten and Francis Hammond. He landed his first fashion tests for the Metropolitan, Elite, Madisson and Success agencies.

In 2009, he won an award at the European Nude Photography Festival in Arles with his series La loge des rats.

In 2011, he won the ILFORD film prize. The same year, he exhibited his series "Les Garçonnes" at the European Nude Photography Festival in Arles at the Chapelle Sainte-Anne.

In 2012, he began his series "Les reflets du désordre" which he concluded in 2014 with the exhibition at the Galerie Schwab Beaubourg and the publication of the book co-published with La Musardine.

Today, he works for various magazines such as Normal, Inked, Tantalum... and collaborates with the lingerie lines "Mise en cage" and "Maison close". His erotic and contemporary stagings have been the subject of sales at Drouot and are regularly exhibited in galleries. He is currently working on his new series of nudes "When men are gone" and "Pure concrete".