Jean-Pierre Domingue

Jean-Pierre Domingue, born in Montreal is a French-Canadian photographer. He begins his career in fashion photography and publicity at the age of 19, a career spanning 30 years and following which he puts fashion photography behind him in 2010 to dedicate himself entirely to art photography. His passion for image creation continues to develop, as he explores different methods and subjects whilst travelling for fashion jobs.

Jean Pierre Domingue was born to parents of Canadian origin, and has three sons. He found his early inspiration in photography magazines such as Camera and Zoom.

He then decides to leave Montreal for Paris at the age of 18 in order to meet the famous fashion photographer Guy Bourdin, having discovered his work in the magazine Photo. Following several early fruitless attempts, he finally meets him by chance . He acquires a solid experience in becoming the assistant of Guy Bourdin.

During his return to Montreal, from 1981 to 1984 Jean-Pierre Domingue opens his own studio and is published in several magazines, as well as working in publicity.

Following his return to Paris in 1984 where he since resides, Jean-Pierre Domingue is hired by the agency Karin Models as a fashion scout, and creates the testboard (newfaces department). During his recruitment trips, he brings many young models to Paris, launching amongst others the careers of Helena Christensen and also Angie Everhart, who he photos in 1993 for the magazine Photo, preceded by an individual interview of himself in 1990.

Following this period, Jean-Pierre Domingue leaves the model agency to concentrate entirely on fashion photography. he opens his own studio, today renamed Redstudio, in which all his shoots in Paris take place. Partly due to his contacts in fashion magazines and houses, he meets with notable success in fashion photography. He works with the most prestigious fashion publications including Vogue (France, Espagne), ELLE (Italy, Quebec), Surface, Tank, Depeche Mode, Votre Beauté, and Jardin des Modes in which he does a portrait of Serge Gainsbourg, also photographing famous fashion models such as Laetitia Casta, Diane Kruger, and more recently Lara Stone, Enikő Mihalik, Jessica Hart. His clients include l'Oréal, Yves Saint Laurent, Dior. He is also artistic director in 2007 of the clip once upon a time of the French group AIR.

Jean Pierre Domingue photographs in his photo studio certain icons of the international rock scene, notably the group Sonic Youth just before their concert at La Maroquinerie, and also the actor Jared Leto in 2012.

Jean Pierre Domingue decides in 2009 to pull a curtain on his career in fashion and publicity and concentrate on his personal work in image creation. He exposes in 2012 in his studio, and also shows 100 polaroids at the gallery Basia Embiricos in Paris, as well as participation in many group exhibitions, including one on his premises. Since 2013, he travels to photograph churches in the south of Italy, mummies, catacombs narturtiums of Palermo, the ruins of Pompeii, Cambodian monks and the temple of Angkor Vat, Hanoi, the Bay of Hạ Long in Vietnam, and continues to photograph models and dancers. In 2011 he sets up Redstudio with his associate and friend Julien Courtois,.

He was at the origin of the recreation of the magazine Camera, along with Bruno Bonnabry-Duval and Eric Fantou, following several meetings at Redstudio.

Gallery exhibitions/Group shows

• Galerie Emotion, Photo Off (photo salon), group show, Paris, 2012
• Galerie Basia Embiricos, "100 polaroids", Paris, 2014

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• http://magazines.whosdatedwho.com/tpx_234/angie-everhart/pictorials
• http://www.photo.fr/magazine/numero-270-mars-1990.html
• http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004904/publicity
• Emma Philippe, Interview du photographe, Jean-Pierre Domingue, http://www.modemylife.com/2014/interview-du-photographe-jean-pierre-domingue, avril 2014
• http://actuphoto.com/27818-laquo-100-polaroids-de-1990-a-2010-raquo-par-jean-pierre-domingue.html
• http://www.thefashionisto.com/jared-leto-by-jean-pierre-domingue-for-kris-van-assche-x-misericordia/
• http://www.galeriebasiaembiricos.com/basia-338-367-Jean_Pierre_Domingue
• http://75.agendaculturel.fr/exposition/4eme-arrondissement-paris/autres/100-polaroids-de-jean-pierre-domingue.html
• http://www.jeanpierredomingue.com/content/palermo
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• http://www.photooff.com/portfolio-posts/galerie-emotion/
• http://www.galeriebasiaembiricos.com/expositions