What was your first shot ?
How did your work, idea evolve ?
It are the films that decided for me…; PX100, PX600, monochrome, silver shade, I had them all in my bag for a couple of days, together with the SX 70 and the Polaroid 680. No result that made me happy.
And then a nice sunny day, pretty girls for a casting and the 600 ASA offered me this series of close ups…
Are you happy with the result ?
I am getting used to it, I love the unity of the faces. I love the idea of having worked very instinctively and that I’ve only shot one Polaroid per girl…something we never do digitally anymore !
What's next ?
The hope that “Impossible Project” will produce much better film !
Estelle Rancurel is a fashion photographer in Paris since 2001.
Very quickly, her first series, published by Tribeka magazine is noticed by the professionals. Immediately, famous magazines call her, which she still collaborates with today (Technikart Mademoiselle, Miss Behave, Cosmopolitan, Milk, Standard... ) Henceforth, her work being well set up, Estelle Rancurel always privileges teamwork with stylists, hairdressers and make-up professionals she knows.
Thus, her glance is substantial, but remains vibrating and picturesque. This professional choice meets itself in the light she looks for, and which brings out the real beauty of textile as much as it does to the models' skin. She defends the idea of a studied casting which contributes to her very modern-considered images, and in the same time to the realist point of view the art directors of the most creative magazines praise.
Usually, she is unanimously recognized for the quality of her model direction, what gives her all freedom to create her own modern and alive photographic style.
