Baptiste Lignel | baptiste@otra-vista.com | +33 666 26 18 67

Baptiste Lignel lives and works in Paris.

He spent three years studying the crafts of photography at Parson's School of Design in New York City. During that period, he made his way towards documentary photography. He met and worked with people like Ben Fernandez, Charles Harbutt, and Susan Meseilas.

He goes for details. Details which tell stories of the people around them. He wants to understand and to make others understand via his images and words, if need be. He is drawn to the religious world as one of man's greatest manifestation of frustration as well as dream.

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Features
Berlin +15

In 1989, the infamous Berlin Wall came tumbling down. Our TV screens filled with images of east Berliner crossing through the smallest of gaps before both countries made the opening of the border offi...

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Saint Denis in person

Find the prostitute.
Seated in a traditional bistrot from the 10th arrondissement, a woman. Slim face, angular glasses, short hair: the appearance of a fashionable architect. Objectively neither beau...

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Single fathers of 30

At 30, many young men would be thought of as playing video games, still living with their parents, or focusing on their professional carriers, some are facing a lone parenthood.

Engaged early in a s...

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Citizen Action

The bus leaves early morning from New York City, carrying a full load of volunteers to the swing state of Pennsylvania. They will spend the day going door to door, trying to convince enlisted voters t...

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Aaron Parks

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Aldo Romano

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Election day portraits #2

The day of the presidential elections in the United States, i tried to get a sense of how the votes were separated. Which social, ethnical, geographical lines the Bush-Kerry rift followed.

I travelle...

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Luz

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Auto Mata 1

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Histoire du soldat

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Lisboets

I had never been there, and had this hungry curiosity to see the place, it's people, it's streets. Eat in those restaurants, and have a local wine at the counter of every bar of the Alfama quarter.
Li...

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In the shadow of Mount Atlas

Mount Atlas is a legend. The legend outsizing the mountain itself. I was in Morocco only for a few days, with no time to go meet the mountain in person. Yet i wanted to get near it. To see the sun ris...

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Ben Harper

I met Ben Harper in 1994. He was doing the first set of Gil Scott Heron, at SOB's in New York City. Processing film overnight i brought him a print the next day when he did a little acoustic set in a ...

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Ed Harcourt

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Italian funeral

Nita and Nino were the quintessential old Italians. Former farmers, they grew up and lived in the same small deserted village in Piemonte. Had some cattle, grew some grape, well, mostly lived of the l...

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Maxim's Wedding

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Boiseries Feau

M. Féau is pursuing the family tradition of wood panneling. Hired as a decorator accross the planet, he has several specialised workshops in France (one for wood, the other for marble, etc...).
In Par...

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Ciments Calcia

I was commissioned by Ciments Calcia -part of the Italcementi Group- to document the fabrication process of cement, in one of their factories, north of Tours, France.
My goal was to show the physical ...

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Isabelle Sicart

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Poster life

A political poster is a space usually meant for a monologue. The candidate speaks to the people, who is expected to listen (/read). After 'listening', passers by, citizens, sometimes decide to respond...

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