French plastician photographer, Antoine Schneck, early on adopted digital photography tools, appreciating their extreme quality and creative potential. His work develops through series, as he travels, follows his desires, and engages in projects, always under the sign of encounter.
For his portraits on black backgrounds, he adopts the same approach each time. Far from any exoticism, his goal is to approach a face in the most direct manner. His subjects are invited to sit in a translucent tent. Sitting in this completely neutral setting, shielded from external stimuli, the subject stands out against a black background while Antoine Schneck, invisible, operates from the outside. In addition to his portraits from around the world, his photographs on black backgrounds also include a series of famous dogs for the Museum of Hunting and Nature, millennia-old olive trees, soldiers from World War I at the top of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, and effigies from the Basilica of Saint-Denis for the Centre des Monuments Nationaux.
In recent years, he has explored other techniques, notably wet collodion, with which he created a series on flowers. His work as a plastician artist also owes much to techniques gleaned from the history of classical painting, for lighting and touch-ups with a graphics tablet.
