The Hulett Collection provides the work of French artist, Alain Laboile, who happened upon photography while looking for a method to document his huge sculptures produced in the French countryside near his home. Within a brief amount of time his lens had turned towards his six homeschooled kids and their every day lives. This has actually resulted in an earnest and beautiful series of work developed by a photography outsider, of sorts.
“I’m a dad of 6. Through my photographic work I celebrate and document my family life: A life on the edge of the world, where intemporality and the universality of childhood satisfy. Day to day, I develop a family album that constitues a tradition that I will pass on to my children. My work reflects our lifestyle, focusing on their youth. My pictures will be the testimony of that. In such a way my method can be thought about comparable to the among an ethnologist. Though my work is deeply individual, it’s also accessible, resolving human nature and allowing the audience to enter my world and assess their own childhoods. Fed daily and shared with the world by means of the web, my photographic production has ended up being a method of communication, causing a questionning about freedom, being and having.”– Alain Laboile
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