Luis Fábrega is a visual and sound artist who, since 2006, has explored photography, video, and music as parts of a single creative organism. His camera moves through cities, bodies, and gestures in motion, with a particular focus on portraiture, dance, and the nude — building an evolving archive of over thirty thousand images that converse across projects. Based in Paris, he creates video art and hybrid pieces where the body becomes both subject and language. Among them, SOKKA — a collaborative video-dance project with twenty performers inspired by Japanese aesthetics — and a series centered on the tree as a symbol of maturity and growth.In parallel, he composes music that blends jazz, pop, and electronica. His discography includes LIFE IN A BOAT, an album recorded aboard a barge on the Seine, alongside more than two hundred original compositions conceived as soundtracks to his own visual universe.His website functions as a living diary where images, videos, and sounds intertwine to tell one continuous story — that of an artist who sees the body, the city, and time as mutable territories of transformation, exposure, and memory.
A gallery of nude photographs can be a space for deep exploration of the body, identity, and vulnerability, far removed from mere provocation. When nudity is approached with respect and an artistic gaze, the body becomes a language that speaks of fragility, strength, personal history, and presence in the world.In this kind of work, the nude allows us to:Question beauty standards and show real bodies, diverse in age, shape, and background, promoting a more inclusive and non-judgmental way of looking.Work on the person’s relationship with their own body, helping them to reconcile with their insecurities and to see themselves with more acceptance and care.Use light, shadow, and composition to suggest rather than simply display, creating images that speak of intimacy, emotions, and silences, and not only of anatomy.As a photographer, a gallery of nudes also involves a great ethical responsibility: building a safe space, always working from consent and dialogue, and taking care of the balance of power between the one who looks and the one who is seen. In this way, the nude becomes a shared act of trust and a form of visual storytelling in which the person is not an object but the subject of their own narrative.
l like working with nude photography because it allows me to go straight to what is essential: the body without armor, without clothing that signals status, profession, or character. Nudity opens up a space of vulnerability where the person shows themselves as they truly are, and this creates a very intense connection between the one who poses, the one who looks, and my own gaze as a photographer.I am especially drawn to it because:I can explore the shape, light, and texture of the body as if it were a landscape or a sculpture, searching for beauty beyond conventional standards and showing real bodies, with marks, scars, and history.I have the opportunity to accompany people in processes of acceptance and reconciliation with their own body, turning the session into an intimate experience, sometimes almost therapeutic, where the camera becomes a tool for self-esteem and empowerment.Nude photography allows me to question the boundaries between the erotic, the artistic, and the everyday, and to use the body as a language to speak about identity, gender, power, and freedom, not just sensuality.I am very aware of the ethical responsibility that this work involves. For me, it is essential to create a safe environment based on trust, clear consent, and absolute respect, so that the person feels like the subject of the image and not the object of the gaze. That responsibility, together with the emotional depth that appears in these sessions, is one of the reasons why nude photography is so meaningful to me.
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PIECES FROM EVERYDAY
This photographic project delves into the silent choreography of everyday life: rooms, objects, domestic corners and routines that, at first glance, go unnoticed. Through precise framing and restrained light, the author transforms cluttered tables, unmade beds, plates, chairs and half-open doors into scenes where the everyday acquires an almost theatrical presence.
ABOUT THE PROJECT
Each photograph functions as a small, intimate stage: there are no grand gestures or exceptional events, only the trace of those who inhabit these spaces, hinted at in the way objects are arranged, accumulate or are left behind. The project proposes a slow, almost meditative gaze that invites viewers to recognize their own routines in these fragments of life, discovering beauty, melancholy and humor in what is seemingly banal.Conceived to be shown both in exhibition spaces and digital environments, this series reflects on how we construct our identity through what surrounds us: furniture, clothing, utensils, cables, papers and small remnants of daily life that become a kind of indirect self-portrait. Rather than merely documenting interiors, the project seeks to reveal the intimate heartbeat of contemporary existence, offering collectors and galleries a body of work that is familiar, recognizable and, at the same time, profoundly poetic.
La Peniche 0:59Fashion film Editorial for “HUF magazine” Model:April Agency: Mademoiselle Agency Paris Photograohy: Rinaldo Sata, Luis Fabrega Styling Assistan: Hernan Esquinca MAKE UP: Lisa Michalik Hair: Toshinari Kokubun Video Directed by Luis Fabrega. Music produced by Luis Fabrega Location: Paris Copyright © Luis Fabrega,Rinaldo Sata 2017
THE CLIENT - HUF Magazine
HUF Magazine is a digital fashion and creative photography magazine that publishes auteur editorials, interviews, profiles of creatives and models, as well as design and culture content with a highly visual and inspirational focus.
Location: ParisYear: 2017
https://hufmagazine.com
Fashion editorial produced in Montmartre for HUF Magazine, the result of a collaboration between London-based photographer Rinaldo Sata and the Luis Fabrega, combining photography and video with models to capture the poetic, bohemian, and contemporary atmosphere of the Parisian neighborhood. Agency: Mademoiselle Agency Paris Photograohy: Rinaldo Sata Styling Assistan: Hernan Esquinca MAKE UP: Lisa Michalik Hair: Toshinari Kokubun
