Letizia Le Fur
Photography
Letizia Le Fur graduated from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in France in 1998 and first trained as a painter. Her work centers on the depiction of beauty and the representation of a fantasized otherworld. Letizia Le Fur’s attention to color is very particular; like a painter, she mixes colors on her palette, isolates and transforms, corrects, adds, exalts the tones, amplifies them to transcend reality and creates this sensation of unreal world. In parallel to her artistic work, Letizia Le Fur collaborates regularly with advertising and press magazines (AD, New York Times, Milk …) and is Leica ambassador since 2019. In 2024, besides a collective exhibition at the BNF in Paris, Letizia will have various solo ones : at the French Institut of Barcelone, at the CRP (Douchy-les-Mines), at the Hôtel Fontfreyde's art center (Clermont-Ferrand), at the Centre Claude Cahun (Nantes) and at the MAP (Toulouse).
Mines de Rien - Grande Commande Photojournalisme - BnF
We are very proud and admiring of @letizialefur and her latest project 'Mines de rien' for which she won the award @grandecommandephoto at @labnf
Letizia challenged herself and went visiting various old uranium mines in France, the most radioactive places in the country today, equipped of her camera and a Geiger counter. A mapping of a dangerous and contaminated nature which highlights the contradiction of the invisible : photography may be able to capture beauty, but it can't show or tell the actual ongoing destruction, as only scientific recordings can prove the damage caused by radioactivity. As orange is the color recalling the uranium's one, she choose to accentuate it in proportion to the radioactivity level recorded at the moment where she took the photos. - Exhibition 'La France sous leurs yeux' From 19.03 to 23.06.24 @labnf