Stéphane Lavoué

Stéphane Lavoué (Mulhouse, 1976) lives and works in Paris. From Zinedine Zidane to Salman Rushdie, artists, intellectuals, politicians, actors, and athletes have all posed for Stéphane Lavoué’s camera. After graduating from the École supérieure du bois in 1998, he spent two years living in the Brazilian Amazon, working as a timber buyer for a French industrial group. Upon returning to Paris in 2001, he left the timber industry to pursue photography. Since then, he has alternated between collaborations with the French and international press, artistic projects and books (The Kingdom, Les Mois noirs, Les Enchanteurs published by Éditions 77, and Gantt published by Filigranes), and exhibitions (Paris Photo, Images Singulières in Sète, Portraits in Vichy, Les Champs Libres in Rennes, etc.). His work has been acquired and included in the collections of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the Maison européenne de la photographie, the Musée de Bretagne in Rennes, and the Musée de l’Armée in Paris. Stéphane Lavoué is an associate artist at the Comédie-Française from 2015 to 2025, under the direction of Éric Ruf. In 2022, he was selected as the winner of the major photography commission “La France sous leurs yeux” (France Through Their Eyes), initiated by the Ministry of Culture and led by the National Library of France (BN), and photographed young recruits in the French Army. Stéphane Lavoué received the Niépce-Gens d’Images Prize in 2018.