Jean-Baptiste Avril Photography

It is a privilege to be the first to comment on your portfolio. Great pictures - I think the PN community would benefit to see some more of the very good work you have already uploaded on your personal website. cheers !

I admire your work. I especially like the strong use of line and pattern, this has really inspired me to take more attention of these factors in my own photography. One small criticism if I may - the height of your work makes the display of the images in their entirity difficult. These images should not be spoiled by the need to use a scroll bar to view them (viewed on a 17inch LCD monitor with 1280x1024 resolution)

Ton portfolio c'est superbe, on voit la photographie comme moi je la comprend. salutations!

It's almost too good for photo.net. Superb.

A very impacting portfolio. Great journalistic photos. I also enjoy your architectural ones. Thanks for sharing those views with us.

For many years, I've been shy about showing my work. Too personal I tought. It's sometimes difficult to open up to others, and photography can be a sort of safe heaven. I know it's a strange paradoxe, as photography is my work and life, but I'm starting to get this changed and try to communicate better. The dark side will be to have some people who won't understand my personal views about photography, but I'll try to play the game, and not be bitter about it.

What matters anyway is what I find to be right when I am behind the viewfinder, just alone with myself...

To show our work in public is a kind of our self portrait, the way we see the life around us and the proper instrument is the camera that will capture our look. The problem many times and, in this kind of places as sites, we can't give much attention to rates unless we give a look to the work of the rater and see what is his photographic culture. The digital technique, the software available today created many new images producers and not photographers and here it remains the confusion of many people that any image that is posted is considered as a photography and the majority are graphic images, digital manipulations, good or bad, doesn't matter. As I told you, you have a humanist work as a photojournalist and I see photography in your portfolio. To be a great photographer is not only the work we do but also the human side from who does it. my best regards.

Hi Alfredo. I totally agree with you. Nowadays, especialy with digital photography and computeurs, it's not that difficult to produce fairly good graphic images. The real point is to have a purpose, on a long term basis. Not just try to please ourselves once in a while. The apprentissage of light takes time and will. The work on perspective is also another topic. The emotion also. If there is not feelings from the photographer at the time he shoots, you can't expect to find it afterwords on the pics. Cheers JB

all has to do with light, composition and a full intuition with 10% of training. Sometimes the esthetic side is not understantable in conjunction with the theme and story. One day I went to an exhibit of one of the most important portuguese photographers of today, Paulo Nozolino...the name of the work is "far Cry"...many photos from beirute, to The Sates, Bosnia..and quite dark photos qith some light points and parts that leads you to the rest of the story but if you look to the photo only with a glance then you won't like it...and I went to taht exhibit with a guy from a site...those "masters" that we sometimes find around here...(master of photoshop and manipulation) and he didn't like, just said..(tipically) to dark...!by that moment..I just met the guy...I knew what was is photographic culture...! Paulo Nozolino had a polemic exhibit in the south of France about the life of gypsis..!

Your portfolio is one of the most moving I've seen on here. Thank you for sharing your photos. You are the best kind of photographer...you make us see through your eyes, the stories unsaid, but told by you through film.

Your body of work, as a whole, is very striking. The architectural shots are so clean and stark, creating, in my mind, a precisely manufactured backdrop from which the suffering of humanity in the next groups leaps out. You make a very poignant statement.

nice portfolio, which reveals a fine eye and a strong (and coherent) style. Thanks for sharing it in the photo.net community. In some photos, I feel somehow the german expressionism.

complimenti i tuoi scatti sono interessantissimi ciao Antonino

compliments.

I have just noticed that among all the pictures I submitted for request, the only one"nude" has attracted so far about 2000 viewer in three days. Far more than any reportage, architecture or fine arts... Perhaps I should consider a twist in my career :))

I found your portfolio very interesting. You have very nice work. smile,,,

It is funny (or sad) your comment about your nude picture attracting so many viewers. It is true indeed. But don't consider a twist in your career, just take more nudes, receive more publicity for that and continue with the beautiful and moving human images you produce as well.

Congratulations on your work, Ron

This is apsolutely my favourite portofolio in here. You are true photographer, and you make me think about myself, and my approach to photography. You capture life itself, thru your eyes, from the heart. So nice to feel that finally on PN :)

Your portfolio shows great passion and compassion. I feel drawn into your pictures and feel a sense of longing to connect in the way you have. Thank you for posting, even though it felt too personal.

You have so beautifuly photos in yours portfolio...Excellent my friend...Excellent...Greetings from Montenegro and i will come back with pleasure...

Bonjour Jean-Baptiste, votre portfolio est super interessant. Vous etes un artiste. Luc, Montreal, Quebec.

Your images are really strong, in all senses. Congratulations for Impressive Work, Good Light!!

Il est toujours difficile d'exprimer avec des mots ce qu'on ressent devant des images. Parfois, on aimerait mieux laisser parler les photos elles mꭥs. Dans ton cas, j'ai senti chez toi un int鲪t, une attention pour des choses toutes banales, quotidiennes. J'ai aim鮍 Le noir et blanc rend mieux cette pr鳥ntation du "banal". Au fond, rien n'est banal. C'est le regard qui permet de voir, sous l'apparente insignifiance d'un sujet, ce qu'il rec謥 d'unique. Merci pour l'魯tion que d駡gent ces photographies. maurice*

Inspirational portfolio. Congratulations

thank you for the comment. I got a chance o look through your work and it is absolutely beautiful, but in a way that is not so concerned with popular beauty, in the way that considers raw emotion to over take current ideas of it.

Great portfolio, excellent composition on many of the photos, texture and feeling definitely comes through well on all of them.

Take care,

G

Great portfolio. I love the way you photo architecture.

Really like those architecture folders. Ur hard worker Jean-Baptiste!

What an interesting portfolio. I have to come back soon. Regards Vassilis.

Another year is near its end and a new one waits just around the corner, the holidays are here, and I wish you and your dear ones, a very joyful season. I also wan to express my deepest gratitude for your thought on my pictures, they mean a lot to me. At the same time, thank you for sharing your vision of the world with us, though we may live in different places and even come from different cultures, we share a passion towards this wonderful hobby?. Happy Holidays and Happy Shooting!!!

Happy new year and a lot of great photos in this new year

I was just randomly browsing some ports, and came across yours. I have to say, I'm glad I did, your images are emotional, and thought provoking. It's an excellent portfolio.

Best regards,

Tim Z

How can you say " I was ...." with all these brilliant comments on your more than clever work, my friend.

regards etc...

Well done!

excellent work !

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Estelle

Jean-Baptiste, you have a wonderful portfolio with very strong images that show your own style. I especially love your b/w architectural work. Give us more of what you do! Regards, Maria

Nice portfolio. Visited Tel Aviv earlier this year and just love your shots of the Bauhaus style there.

Some of the best photojournalistic and documentary photographs I have seen. The architecture section is of no minor value. Some of them are in my opinion real masterpieces. I am very happy to be able to look at your work. Please visit my portfolio and give me your honest opinion (I don't usually ask that). All the best.

... anything you shoot. I particularly admire the architecture, but this is a very fine portfolio. My congratulations.

I liked your portfolio very much too... very interesting architecture perception.

Je decouvre ton portfolio que je trouve magnifique. J'adore "Sand" et "Quai d'Orsay".

Wonderful and very interesting portfolio. Your (Tel-Aviv 2009) and your (Sand experiment) shots are really excellent!!!

It is hard for me to comment on just one of your pictures. There are so many that I love. You are an amazing photographer : )

joli album photo, je suis assez fan. olivier

This is an inspirational portfolio. Your images of industrial buildings, industrial decay and people at work are wonderful.

Amazing pictures. I loved both the reportage and the architecture. The pictures of the karen brought memories back. The uncovered grave in Sarajevo is very touching and much more impressive and expressive than most of the images I've seen of the balkans. Bravo! Bravo! Bravo! Lorenzo

This is splendid work, all the way. A fantastic portfolio. Thank you for sharing it with us. Lennart.K.V.

I just felt the need to comment on your portfolio. It's really great! Very strong, powerfull and well balanced photos. Nice work!

i admire your ability to put together a well-structured reportage series- you have a keen photographer's eye. a huge amount of work behind these images. this is a stand-out portfolio. great quality here all round. B.

Your work is inspiring. Thank you

Bonjour Jean-Baptiste, un retour sur ton travail, tes images en noir et blanc m'emporte! et je découvre cette fois les couleurs...les images sur l'Afrique: Burkina, Zambie ou Mali sont incroyables...chapeau bas, quelles merveilles!!! A très bientôt, Pascal.