The New Yorker
April 14, 2008 - Vince Aletti
Fougeron’s pictures of Adrien and Nicolas sleeping or lounging about in Greenwich Village and the South of France have a lovely looseness and spontaneity, but they never feel like snapshots. Color energizes the work and adds to its sensual undertow.
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THE EYE OF PHOTOGRAPHY (L'ŒIL DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE)
January 16, 2020
Nicolas & Adrien is a sensual biography of two adolescents and a depiction of the universal processes of growing up to which all can relate… “I am influenced by conventions of cinema, especially the dramatic effects of set lighting. I also derive inspiration from Dutch painting, particularly Vermeer’s mysterious domestic portraits.” – Martine Fougeron
T Magazine, The New York Times: A Mom Turns Her Sons Awkward Adolescence Into Art
September 18, 2013 - Caroline Cagney
Beginning Friday, the art gallery on the fourth floor of the Hermès flagship store on Madison Avenue in Manhattan will be filled with 23 photographs by the Parisian-born, New York-based artist Martine Fougeron. The images belong to “Teen Tribe”... “It is the story of six years of our life unfolding, as well as folding,” said Fougeron, whose sons Adrien, now 21, and Nicolas, now 22, served as both the inspiration and subjects.
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Photograph magazine: PORTFOLIO
March-April 2020 - Elisabeth Biondi
Her color portraits often contain contrasting qualities. They are carefully lit and composed but they are also lively and of the moment. Fougeron says that she thinks of color and shape first, lighting the images cinematically. She cites Vermeer’s paintings of domestic life as well as Larry Sultan’s photographs of his parents as inspirations, and she is fond of quoting Matisse: “But isn’t love at the origin of all creation?” Her love for her sons is the underlying thread connecting all of these fine psychological portraits.
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Vogue Italy: This is not a Fashion Photograph
January 7, 2020 -Vince Aletti
Martine Fougeron dedicates a diary of images of adolescence to her boys. Immortalizing a rite of passage. And capturing the tension between spontaneity and staging.
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The Guardian: The real Boyhood: one mum's quest to infiltrate her teenage sons lives'
March 10, 2020 - Michael-Oliver Harding
Post-prom Jacuzzis, clumsy first kisses and tentative band practices: leafing through the early chapters of Martine Fougeron’s latest photo book can feel like snooping in these teenage boys’ private sanctuary. Few would assume that the person behind the lens is the protagonists’ mum…
Fougeron deftly avoids the trap of dramatic coming-of-age cliches, opting instead to highlight “in-between” events in her sons’ lives…
Videos:
BronxNet TV: Model Redux at the Bronx Art Space, Dorissa White, 2018
Family Portraiture: A Discussion between Martine Fougeron and Annu Mathew. Alliance Francaise and Chennai Photography Biennale, 2019
PWP on line: PhotoTalk with Martine Fougeron, Interview with Barbara Leven, 30", March 2013, 2009
TV France 24 International News : Intimist Photographer, 6", 2009
LFNY: Artist-in-Residence Martine Fougeron Martine Fougeron, 2014
FotoTV: 30 video interview, Ludwig, Marc, 2009 e-photoreview
NYPH Festival in Dumbo : 6" interview, , 2011, De Zen, Moria
Features:
ELLE, L’Oeil Ouvert, (03-07-2024). >>> Tear Sheet
FT: Snapshot: Nature Vigoureuse by Martine Fougeron, by Georgina Findlay (07-01-2023)>>>pdf
L’Oeil de la Photographie: Institut d’Art Château d’Assas : Martine Fougeron : Summer Time (06-23-2023)>>>pdf
American Photography 36 (book)
D La Repubblica della donne, Non Cresco Piu? by Roberta Giuili. May 15, 2021. >>>Tear Sheet
The Guardian: The real Boyhood: one mum's quest to infiltrate her teenage sons lives' by Michael-Oliver Harding (03-10-2020).>>>pdf
Photograph magazine: PORTFOLIO by Elisabeth Biondi (03-04-2020)>>>pdf
The New York Times: With Final Gracie Mansion Show, First Lady Aims to Secure Arts Legacy by Robin Pogrebin. >>>pdf
Elizabeth Avedon Journal: NYC Book Signings: March 2020
ProPhotoDaily: Books: Martine Fougeron's "World with Two Sons” by David Schonauer (02-11- 2020) >>>pdf
FT: Snapshot: Nicolas & Adrien: A World with Two Sons by Martine Fougeron, by Chris Allnutt (01-31-2020)>>>pdf
L’Oeil de La Photographie: ‘Martine Fougeron : Nicolas & Adrien – A World with Two Sons (01-16-2020) >>>pdf
Vogue Italy: This is not a Fashion Photograph by Vince Aletti (01-07-2020) >>>>pdf
LandscapeStories : Adolescence, 2012
ELLE China: Portfolio, 2 pages, March 2011
Monthly Photography Korea : Vol. 522, 2011, Junga Yang, Joanne (Portfolio, 9 pages)>>>pdf
PDN'S 30 : 30 Emerging Photographers to Watch, 2009, Walker, David >>>pdf
Milk Magazine: Presque Adultes, 2009, Rolando, Florence (Portfolio, 4 pages) >>>pdf
Pitti Imagine Milan: Portfolio, 10 pages, 2009 >>>pdf
American Photo Magazine: 30 Photographers to Watch, 2008, Debra Klomp Ching >>>pdf
Eyemazing: Issue 3, Tête-à-Tête, 2008, Baxter, Sarah (Portfolio, 10 pages). >>>pdf
Visual Communication Quarterly: Tête-à-Tête with Adrien, December 2008
Capricious: #7, 2007 (Portfolio, 6 pages)
American Photography Book: 23, 25, 26, 27, 28, 30, 33, 35 (AP Book) >>>pdf
AP Books : >>>pdf
Profile in ai-ap. Photographer Profile - Martine Fougeron: "I felt that these were unheralded people" by David Schonauer Tuesday April 5, 2016
L'Oeil de La Photographie: Interview by Elizabeth Avedon: Martine Fougeron: Heart of the South Bronx: Trades, Wednesday, September 17, 2014
Album in The New York Times, Sunday, May 12, 2013: Sugary, but Real by David Gonzalez >>> pdf of spread sheet
Reviews:
L’Oeil de la Photographie: Institut d’Art Château d’Assas : Martine Fougeron : Summer Time
ArtDaily: Steidl publishes Martine Fougeron: Nicolas & Adrien. A World with Two Sons, January 27,2020.
PhotoWeenie: Martine Fougeron - Nicolas et Adrien. A world with Two Sons, by Jim Fitts, January 27, 2020.
Refinery29: How Much Of Your Life Would You Let Your Mom Photograph? by Nina Wolpow, June 16, 2015.
Artnetnews: The Wing Social Club Debuts Its New Brooklyn Space With an All-Woman Art Exhibition by Sarah Cascone, Feb. 26, 2018 .
The New Yorker: Photo Booth: Just Us Kids by Genevieve Fussell, September 14, 2013
Artsy: Martine Fougeron at The Gallery at Hermès by Cory Jacobs - November 4, 2013.
Bullett Magazine: Photographer Martine Fougeron turns her Sons into Art in ‘Teen Tribe' by Allyson Shiffman - November 7, 2013
Lens Culture: Teen Tribe, November 4, 2013.
L'Oeil de la Photographie: Teen Tribe at The Gallery at Hermès - October 30, 2013.
Dust Magazine: October 26, 2013.
Flakphoto: Martine Fougeron - October 25, 2013.
The New York Times: A Little Privacy: Mom? by Caroline Cagney, Sunday Styles - September 22, 2013. >>> pdf
Arts Culture Beat: The kids are all right by Brian Mastroianni, Columbia School of Journalism - September 30, 2013.
CR Fashion Book: Teen Tribe, A photo exhibition by Martine Fougeron at the Hermès Gallery in New York Sept. 20, 2013. >>>pdf
The New Yorker: Photo Both, Just Us Kids, posted by Genevieve Fussell - September 20, 2013.
Whitewall Magazine: Martine Fougeron Teen Tribe at the Gallery at Hermès. Interview with curator Cory Jacobs.
Artsy: Martine Fougeron at The Gallery at Hermès - September 2013.
T Magazine, The New York Times: Culture, On View - A Mom Turns Her Sons Awkward Adolescence Into Art by Caroline Cagney, 09/18/2013.
La Lettre de La Photographie: South Bronx on Trades/Oficios/Metiers, 2012, Cuenin, Jonas.
ArtDaily: Photography in the New Yorker, at the Howard Greenberg Gallery - 2011.
Blouin ArtInfo: Hermes exhibits Martine Fougeron in NY
YouTube: A commentary on Tête-à-Tête, CCNY, Allen Frame - 2011.
The New York Times: The Fully Engaged Lens, 2011, Johnson, Ken >>>pdf
La Lettre de La Photographie: After Prom by Martine Fougeron - 2011.
NPR: Cotton, Charlotte - August 31, 2009.
The New Yorker: Art Review by Vince Aletti, April 14, 2008
The New Yorker: Art Listing, March 24, 2008
Interviews:
Explora: Maternal Instincts: Martine Fougeron Pictures a World with Two Sons by Jill Waterman, May 2019.
i-D-Vice : Martine Fougeron photographs the most compelling teens ever: her sons by Rory Satran, May 21, 2015. Read >>>.
DART: Martine Fougeron: Teen Tribe a Hermès by Peggy Roalf, October 16, 2013 >>>interview
PDN: Why Gerard Steidl is a Book Publishing Master, by David Walker, PDN, August 2013 >>>interview
Double Exposure: Essence of Imagery: An Interview with Martine Fougeron, 2008, Robert Shaeffer
WYBC, Yale Radio: Martine Fougeron by Brainard Carey, December 6, 2017. Listen>>>
Profiles:
Maternal Instincts: Martine Fougeron Pictures a World with Two Sons by Jill Waterman, Explora, May 10, 2019
French Morning: La Seconde Vie de Martine Fougeron, mere/photographe, Catherine Cusset, October 28, 2013.
Ai-AP Profiles: Photographer Profile - Martine Fougeron: "I felt that these were unheralded people" by David Schonauer, April 5, 2016
BLOUI ART INFO: Behind Closed Doors: Martine Fougeron Documents the Craftsmen of the Bronx by Kat Herriman, April 6, 2016
CRAVE: Profile: Martine Fougeron: The South Bronx Trades by Miss Rosen, April 7, 2016
L’oeil de La Photographie: Profile, 2019