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05 FOREWORD

06 SCREAM The raw emotion of the first scream

10 SILENCE In the eye of the storm

14 OWO7 In the course of randomness

18 PURE From instinct rises authenticity

22 ACCUMULATION Enumerate the elements of a world

26 NUDE The appeal of a return to basics iKRAFT Sharing inspiration

30 OPIUM In between unions and divisions PERSPECTIVE Escape the frame

34 TERMINUS All change please

CONTACT

Vincent Kraft is an artistic photographer who likes to provoke your imagination. His eyes look for what will urge his audience on to disconnect from this world and invent their own.

Born in the suburbs of Paris, this is where he understood that the power of images lies in their ability to influence. He exploits their propensity to turn the same element into heaven or hell, catalysing your indignation. This idea has sharpened itself along his trips such as in Dubai, a wonderful Eden with a disturbing underworld.

Giving equal importance to both spontaneity and experimentation, Vincent Kraft likes to take risks by thinking outside the box. Black and white, 3D, silver, and lomography: a creative versatility that allows him to build architectures made of perspectives and vanishing points. He definitely is an original character, which is not a surprising when you look at his main sources of inspiration: Arno Rafael Minkkinen, Nick Brandt, but also Jackson Pollock and Christopher McCandless.

Vincent Kraft has since gained international recognition. His career has been marked by the publication of numerous photographs in books, and also by three personal exhibitions: “A2 pas du Louvre” in Paris, “Inside Your Skin” in Cardiff and “4 Seas 4 Sights” at the Washington Gallery.

360° | WAlES

CHNou | Morocco

Men build their universes as scars on the surface of a planet they upset on a daily basis, like a constant affront to our eyes and streets. These photographs are the witnesses of the brutality of our urban environments, to which the screams of concrete are an inextinguishable echo.

The raw emotion of the first scream

THE QuEEN'S uNDERWEAR | EnglAnd

SIAMESE | FrAncE

LoTTERY | FrAncE

NATuRE| cook ISlAndS

Sometimes, in the heart of our cities, a short lull allows us to forget the effervescence that overwhelms us. This series is a tribute to these rare moments that remind us that life is not only a maze of streets and walls. It is, far beyond a meaning we try to define, something absolutely prodigious.

In the eye of the storm

SLICED| ITAlIA

FREEzE | cook ISlAndS

SLICED| ITAlIA

HIDE AND SEEK | Morocco

STEPS| cook ISlAndS

In the course of randomness

From time to time, luck or the randomness of a gesture can give life to an unexpected vision. on this glossy paper, you can then discover sceneries of light, superimposed smiles, dreamlike constructions. Be fast! Don’t think! These commandments have turned lomography into a never-ending source of poetry.

JuNGLE JAW | cook ISlAndS

SPACE MouNTAIN| FrAncE

Pog | France

From instinct rises authenticity

Beauty doesn’t need artifice, and sometimes a photographer must get back to the basics of his art in order to better capture it. These pictures will remind you of those from the early twentieth century, from a Paris of the workers to a New York of the dancers, where photographers had everyday life as their only muse.

PuRE #14| FrAncE

PuRE #30 | EnglAnd

PuRE #28 | WAlES

PuRE #29 | EnglAnd

La nature est le dernier royaume de la nudité, un jardin d’Eden où le serpent et la pomme ne nous ont pas encore trahis. Elle se montre sous son plus beau jour, telle une flèche qui transperce notre rétine et nous rappelle qu’habituel n’est pas synonyme de normal.

ACCuMuLATIoN # 3 | Morocco

ACCuMuLATIoN # 11 | SPAIn

Enumerate the elements of a world

These are actual slices of life that reveal a complex meshing of fragments of memories. You will be looking for that magical moment when, in the middle of the unexpected organization of this shambles, you catch a glimpse of reminiscence. This series is an addition of mazes, the courses of which are nothing more than our own internal journeys.

La nature est le dernier royaume de la nudité, un jardin d’Eden où le serpent et la pomme ne nous ont pas encore trahis. Elle se montre sous son plus beau jour, telle une flèche qui transperce notre rétine et nous rappelle qu’habituel n’est pas synonyme de normal.

ACCuMuLATIoN # 4 | NoRTHERN IrElAnd

ZEBRA | MoRoCCo

The appeal of a return to basics

Nature is the last kingdom of nudity, an Eden where the snake and apple have not betrayed us yet. It reveals itself under its most beautiful lights, as an arrow that strikes our retina and reminds us that “common” is never synonymous with “normal.”

PHoSPHENE | cook ISlAndS

WALLPAPER | FrAncE

NAuTILuS | cook ISlAndS

MoSAIC | FrAncE

Sometimes, the original picture surprises you when you’re not prepared. Time, place, subject. Nothing is absolutely foreseeable and that’s what its beauty is all about. This series shows how technology helps us to catch what we would have wanted to seize in a heartbeat.

Sharing inspiration

ALTERNATIVES | FrAncE

CoMPoSITIoN | WAlES

VIEWS | WAlES

oPPoSITES | Morocco

In between unions and divisions

Religion numbs our intellectual abilities in the manner of opium, a paradox that federates as much as it splits. It communicates and excommunicates. This series shows the everyday impact of beliefs on our cultures. Through questioning. Not judging.

oPPoSITES | Morocco

THE SToNE | Morocco

RESuRRECTIoN | FrAncE

Please use these anaglyph 3D glasses to maximise your 3D experience.

Sometimes it takes more than two dimensions to render what touches the spirit and the heart. This third dimension is the one that transforms the field of the frame, offering new perspectives to it. This dimension helps the artist to highlight every vanishing point.

Escape the frame

ARCADIA | WAlES

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MINI - GooPER | Morocco

All change please

Machines are our exoskeletons. Sometimes they make us stronger, sometimes even more handsome, and always serve us as metallic slaves until their death. This next series is the illustration of this subservience, all along an existence devoted to being someone else’s engine.

BuRN - ouT | FrAncE

Vincent Kraft

www.vincentkraft.com

contact@vincentkraft.com

Vincent Kraft is more than an artist. It is a whole team. Beyond our creative propositions, we are committed to democratizing art, to give to the greatest number of people an access to its promotion, its comprehension, and its acquisition. Therefore, following us is not only following an artist as fascinating as impassioned : it is looking at a brand new conception of sharing art.

Mickael Lambert Web developer

Vincent Kraft Photographer

Adrien Simonnot copywriter

Thomas Clement Webmaster

Jean Mercier Web developer

Antoine Jeangirard Financial Planner

Emilie Exty Public relations

Guillaume Maillefert Web & graphic designer

The Kraft Team invites you to share its artistic universe online, from the front to the backstage, where the magic happens.

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