A wild year: What's coming up for photographer, Laurent Baheux?

Renowned for his majestic wildlife photography in low exposure, high contrast black and white, Laurent Baheux’s work has made headlines in some of the most striking and influential awareness campaigns for organisations such as World Wildlife Fund and United National Environment Programme. His charity initiatives extend beyond the reproduction of his images: Baheux is also a UNEP Goodwill Ambassador for the anti-poaching initiative. His career is punctuated with awards and honours, including Shell Wildlife Photographer of the Year (2007) and the Moscow International Foto Awards (2016). 

2020 is proving an incredibly prolific artistic year for the photographer, whose work has been likened to the classical portraiture of Richard Avedon and Studio Harcourt. Baheux is currently promoting a series of exhibitions, both physical and virtual, that contribute to his unique and dynamic oeuvre wildlife photography. 

The first is the Photographic Festival of Moncoutant-sur-Sevre, in which Baheaux will be exhibiting alongside ten other world-renowned photographers including humanist photographer, Reza, Anne de Vandiere, Greg Lecoeur and Julie de Waroquier. The exhibition is celebrating its tenth anniversary with an exhibition of a fitting ten photographers, each of whom has exhibited previously in Moncoutant-sur-Sevre previously. The festival is currently running and will close on 18th October 2020.

Also, currently available to visit, is Baheux’s Africa Sauvage, running until 6th September 2020 at the Gallery IMAG’IN ART. Saintes. Large-scale prints of Baheux’s most striking work adorn the period panelling in the intimate gallery space.

Finally, and in line with the global art scene of our times, Baheux is hosting a virtual exhibition on his website, laurentbaheux.com, by the name, Je Ne Suis Pas. The exhibition moves through the emotive themes of his work, including grand statements about the condition and treatment of wildlife around the world. Wild animals, his messages go, are not spectacles, trophies, harmful, tourist attractions, medical remedies for human consumption or to be experimented on for human gain.