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About Florian VillainJean Luc Dubin

Born in 1949 Jean Luc Dubin lives and works near Paris in France. After commercial studies he chose to devote himself to photography a passion of childhood: from the age of 11 during a summer camp he discovered the power of the image. His work is eclectic portraits of classical and jazz musicians (for Deutch Gramophon Verve) a residency at the Musee de l''Homme in Paris for a visual artist portraits and always travel before elaborating on powerful themes including the spine expresses a deep humanity. In the 1970s and 1980s these are the first exhibitions in Paris in 1973 for Les Gens de Prague then in 1980 New-York City in 1982 Saint-Louis Missouri in 1983 Le Peuple Sarahoul . in 1987 the Musee des Beaux Arts de Chartres hosted his work Visite des Images de la Cathedrale large black and white prints on palisades installations of objects abandoned by tourists an ambulatory of images on the ground... In 1992 and 1995 he participates in two major exhibitions of the Musee de l''Homme Tous parents Tous Differentes and Six milliards d''hommes . De 1996 to 1999 he worked at the CMP in Montreuil with children aged five to eight with behavioural problems. Begins work on identity from genograms. En 1995 he was invited to residency in Tangier (Fondation Lorin) with Portraits de mois avec Bebe shortcuts of life thirty portraits Polaroid 50 x 60 then in Fez in 1997 : he built L''Arbre a Famille with the sculptor Jocelyne Bouquin. En 2003its Mariannes de La Republique dress the columns of the French National Assembly. In 2004 he participated in a group exhibition at the Galerie Herschtritt in Paris then in 2005 it was the beginning of a work entitled Monstruosite Beaute Extreme about the collection of human pathologies at the Mu In 2005 Le Piege a reflets is a creation that emerges from two successive residencies at the Cultural Centre of Cotonou in Benin exhibited at the Lhomond Foundation in Paris and at the French Cultural Centre in Cotonou. In 2011 this installation is shown in Provins plus Fictions Vaudoues which are exhibited in December at the Galerie Iconoclastes under the name: Fictions Vaudoues nature mortes argentiques et installation . In 2013 he is invited to the Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie in Tlemcen and Oran and organizes workshops with young Algerian photographers. He is invited to the Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie in Tlemcen and Oran and organizes workshops with young Algerian photographers. In 2016 is released 1978 New York with a text by Peter Wortsman which traces the photographic work he had undertaken in New York in 1978. In Also in 2016 he initiated an artistic mediation to talk about the special relationship between Algeria and France with the scientific support of Professor Andre Langaney geneticist of the populations. It is then that he creates Melangeons-nous a project of artistic and playful encounters which tries to pose images and words on the question of living together. Since 2012 he has led therapeutic workshops in three departments of the Ville-Evrard psychiatric hospital (near Paris France) with the desire to offer patients the opportunity to use photography to enhance their self-esteem and to open up to others. Florian Villain is a teacher-researcher philosopher and sociologist. He is especially Neapolitan for love (his wife is from Naples). By his text he revisits her city of heart devoid of any judgment but enthusiastic and filled with this joy of living baroque that can only be found in Naples. He supports Jean Luc Dubin in his approach photographic for several months.