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Frédéric
Fontenoy’s chambre noire is his ‘place of freedom’, not just the
photographer’s darkroom but the black wallpapered room within his home
in Paris where he has been creating these seductive scenes since 2006.
A battered brass bed… Grandfather’s rugs… A stool from a charity shop
on which the charcoal paint is never quite dry… With the curtains
closed on his neighbours, Fontenoy’s world evokes the pre-Marthe
Richard Law brothel. Fashions in pubic hair aside, his models resemble
the sporting-house girls of E.J. Bellocq, whose overt – and marketable
– sexuality is not the only focus of the images that capture them.
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