healing...

"THE PRACTICE OF FORGIVENESS IS OUR MOST IMPORTANT CONTRIBUTION TO THE HEALING OF THE WORLD."

~   Marianne Williamson 

kirsten #4, jean-françois lepage for jil sander (unpublished polaroid), 1990

we let...

sometimes, we let 

our bodies 

become breeding grounds 

for saddness.

we do not see 

all the beauty 

trying to grow 

within us,

around us.

—f. gabdon

Jean-François Lepage, 1998

beginning of the end...

To feel absolutely right is the beginning of the end.

— Albert Camus

sophie hirschfelder photographed by jean-françois lepage & styled by lotta volkova adam for grey magazine #8, s/s 2013

A person's life...

A person’s life purpose is nothing more than to rediscover, through the detours of art, or love, or passionate work,

those one or two images in the presence of which his [her] heart first opened.

— Albert Camus

Jean-François Lepage

I will...

I will be the cause

of your longest deepest breath,

your relieving sigh.

— Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson

Jean-François Lepage, 1998

photography and painting...

jean-francois lepage is a french photographer with an intriguing and unique style of fashion photography. his work at the intersection of painting, cinema and contemporary photography, represents a very different way of seeing the world of fashion and is truly exceptional.