Charles Fréger
Charles Fréger (born 1975) is a French portrait photographer. Work For Wilder Mann (2012), Fréger travelled across Europe to photograph the costumes and masks worn by people at the surviving pagan folk festivals that mark the coming of spring, winter or new year. For Bretonnes (2015), Fréger travelled throughout Brittany "making austere, formally beautiful portraits" of young women in traditional costumes and headwear. Publications Portraits photographiques et uniformes. Paris: 779 and Société française de photographie, 2001. . Majorettes. Paris: , 2002. . Légionnaires. With an essay by Raphaëlle Stopin. Paris: 779 and Château d'eau, 2002. . Donneurs. Preface by Pierre Etschegoyan. Ponctuation, 2002. . Bleus de travail. With an essay by Marc Donnadieu. Rouen: POC, 2003. . Steps. Cherbourg: POC / Le point du Jour, 2003. . Le Froid, le gel, l'image : Merisotakoulu. With an essay by . Paris: Léo Scheer, 2003. . Rikishi. With an essay by Chihiro Minato. Rouen: POC, 2004. . 2Nelson. With an essay by Bill Kouwenhoven. Rouen: POC, 2005. . Lux. With essays by Stéphane Bern and Didier Mouchel. Veenman, 2007. . Les Fleurs du paradis. With an essay by Fréger. Villa Noailles/archibook, 2008. Empire. With an essay by Prosper Keating. Paris: Thames &