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Artist Message
Gaétan was trained in photography at the Concordia University after a college diploma in graphic communications in Montreal. His career started with a show at "Le Mois de La photo à Montréal", and went on to pursue his photo projects and to exhibit his work in Belgium, England, Hungary, Italy/Galleria San Fedele, Milan, and Spain. Beside offering fine art prints in limited editions, his evocative and ethereal images are well suited for the book cover market and clients having licensed his work recently, include: ABCnews.com Ballantine Books BBC Audiobooks Bertelsman British Journal of Photography Changbi Publishers Chesky Records CNBC De Bezige Bij editions Discovery Communications Editions Héloïse d’Ormesson Ediciones Martinez Roca S.A Ediciones Paidós Editions 10 X 18 Editions Stock Flammarion Folio Policier FOX Broadcasting Harlequin? yes, Harlequin Harper Collins Judson Press Le livre de poche Little Brown McClelland & Stewart Microsoft MTV NBC Universal Penguin Classics Raincoast Books Random House Readers Digest Science & Vie (front cover) Théatre de la Monnaie The Guardian The Wall Street Journal TIME.com Uitgeverij Unieboek Vintage Crime/Black Lizard His work was also reviewed by Penny Cousineau-Levine in her book "Faking Death" Canadian Art Photography and the Canadian Imagination. McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003. One of his image was included into the Bettmann's archive in 2003 as one of the "Betmann 100 photo contest" winner, along with the images of Marilyn Monroe! Gaétan Charbonneau won the first place, Black & White category contest, from the Photographer's Forum Magazine. One of his image was also featured in the PDN magazine of the November 2006 issue. "Over the last two years or so, my work was chosen for the book covers of cutting hedge authors such as: Åke Edwardson, Jonathan Franzen, Jo Nesbø, Anne Holt, Stephen Brijs, Amin Maalouf, Alain Badiou and John Farrow. It's truly fantastic to be associated with these high profile writers." |
