GILLES CRAMPES an inspired photographer
Photo credit: Bernard Lachaud
Gilles Crampes has participated in several shooting campaigns for ME.LAND eco-friendly sneakers . He truly embraced light, colors, and body language to highlight our collections.
Gilles Crampes is a photographer specializing in in-depth sociological and ethnological reports. He has alternated between international reports, assignments, and personal projects since 1994. His reports have been published in international press such as Newsweek, National Geographic France, Géo, The Independent, Le Monde, Grands Reportages, etc.
After his international reports where he illustrated Paris in the most curious way — a 7-year project dedicated to Pigalle, Paris seen from the heights of historical buildings — Gilles Crampes now focuses on the different peoples living in Paris who have emigrated from all corners of the world.
For him, it's about illustrating the cultural richness that has resulted, but also studying the preservation of these exiled cultures in Paris by focusing on their profane, spiritual or religious aspects.
This project is part of a personal work, large series calling for a reflection on the notion of travel, which he has been developing for over ten years. After Transient States, a series addressing consumerism in travel and images, then Waterfront, paying tribute to the first great maritime explorers and the local populations encountered, Paris Celebrations is a series offering a journey in reverse where peoples and cultures from all continents intertwine in Paris, creating a world within a city.
The project was transformed into a book published by Magellan & Company in November 2016.
