Alexandre Laurent had the luck to be born in an artistic family. His father leaves France for Brussels at the time of the 1958 World's Fair, armed with extensive experience as a photographer under his belt. Once there, he works for Associated Press as a photojournalist, but ere long he discovers his passion for aerial photography.

Little Alexandre is raised during the glory days of press photography and frequently accompanies his father on his aerial missions. These trips lead him to discover, at a very young age, that which will become his own passion in the future. His immense dedication to the image reaches its height once he boards the plane equipped with his father's cameras.

Career

In 1981, then 17-year old Alexandre starts his career as an apprentice to his father.
In 1985 he finds his own wings by founding his proper photography bureau, specialized in studio photography and business reporting.
In 1993-94, he is forced to put his professional activities on hold in order to fulfill his military obligations.
In 1994, he invests in additional studio equipment and dedicates himself solely to promotional photography. He works for Alken-Maes, Nestlé, Black & Decker, John Martin, Godiva, CFE, CEI and Besix, among many others.
In 1998, Alexandre discovers digital photography.
In 2000, he abandons his lab and goes fully digital.
Today, Alexandre Laurent heads a one hundred percent digital photography bureau, complete with studio. Moreover, he is the manager of an advertisement agency consisting of seven employees. Both companies are housed under the roof of a renovated 675 m2 factory hall in Braine l'Alleud.

Throughout the years, Alexandre has cherished a single dream: to put his father's knowhow back into practice and to extend it by taking up aerial photography himself. Now, after forty years, he follows in his father's footsteps, determined however to leave his own mark. His father was a talented journalist, but Alexandre undeniably possesses his own gift: that of an artist.

Art

Alexandre Laurent's artistic talent is plainly and most fully revealed in his nocturnal aerial photos. To the challenging complexity of this line of work, he indisputably links a fine artistic sensibility. He prefers a regular plane to a heli, as the former affords him greater freedom of altitude. However, this choice requires a great degree of technical mastery, since the moment must be captured in full flight. Thus, Alexandre practices his art in the spirit of the finest tradition of aerial photography. Within the space of a single second, he captures the breathtaking beauty of his city, offering his audience a surprising new perspective on their familiar surroundings. By his work on light and by night, Alexandre pictures the city anew.