After publishing the Volume I at the end of 2019, in 2022 Romain Laprade makes a comeback with Distances Volume II, a selection of images drawn from photographs accumulated on trips over the last 3 years.
Romain worked first in Vogue magazine Paris as a graphic designer then to Holiday magazine, but his passion for photography, which had been within him since the age of 15 years, finally became his job.
The renowned curator and the editor of the book, Yvon Lambert, expresses her long-lasting admiration about Romain’s work in the note that arrives at Openhouse with the book:
The photographs of Romain Laprade are becoming in a few years a signature subtle and intriguing visual. His style stands out from that of his peers, focusing on details that he transforms into iconic pictures.
The photographs of Romain Laprade are becoming in a few years a signature subtle and intriguing visual. His style stands out from that of his peers, focusing on details that he transforms into iconic pictures.
Its warm tones and his sense of composition interest brands in constant search of news and help to make known through different publications. Innocuous details, compositions minimalist, marked lights, it is this aesthetic that is published in the book.
Romain Laprade freezes lines and surfaces through an aesthetics and a photographic vocabulary which is to him clean, often drawn from architecture.
In the 1960s, Yvon Lambert opened his gallery in Paris. In 1972, he began to show American artists, pioneers of Conceptual, Minimal and Land Art, and European artists. In the 1980s, he had a visionary return to painting, photography and video, with exhibitions of the major artists of the time.
After closing his gallery at 108 rue Vieille du Temple, in 2017 he and his daughter Ève opened a gallery, bookshop and publishing house designed by architect Dominique Perrault. A place of encounter, it offers a wide range of books, catalogs and rare books, and proposes new exhibitions with established and emerging artists.
