CHARLES FREGER // YOKAINOSHIMA- SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Since the beginning of the year 2000, Charles Fréger has been pursuing an inventory entitled "Photographic portraits and uniforms". In Europe and around the world, with his series devoted to groups of sportsmen, soldiers or students, he is interested in outfits and uniforms. His first series was called "Faire face", because for him, the meeting of photographer and model crystallizes in a confrontation distanced on the surface as if to better appreciate the thickness of the being in the world and its belonging to the social body. Body and esprit de corps are the mainsprings of these individual presences where the outfit, understood as both pose and clothing, materialize the "physique of the job" or "the monk's habit".