This site presents our activity in still life and allows you to purchase works.

For each one, we recall the selections that we were able to make during past exhibitions.

A link in the Other still lifes category allows you to acquire other still lifes that you would not

have found on this site but seen elsewhere, in particular

on our presentation site www.photographie-peinture.com .

Finally, a  new site also presents some landscapes created in the spirit of painting.

For accurate color rendering on your screen, we advise you to calibrate it

with a Spyder X Pro. This done, to best judge one of our photographs,

we advise you, when displayed large in your browser,

to save it by right-clicking on your desktop.

You will then open it with an application like Photos for Windows.

Good visit ! 

  Henri Peyre and Catherine Auguste - Légumes sur une table de pierre (2014)

Statement of intent

We aim for the confusion of photography with painting.

Our still life work is, like still life itself, a silent bomb.

A silent bomb, still life is so because it always invites the simplest things to collectors’ walls. She thus avoids the representation of great subjects (great men, great monuments, great actions), indicating that it is the material alone which is beautiful, not the social game.

A silent bomb because photography is something miserable for the history of art. Already condemned by Baudelaire for the vulgarity of the details, it was rejected by painters for this reason; when it finally imposes itself, it is in the poverty of the Documentary Style. Now we want to take a photograph for lovers of painting.

Silent bomb because by proceeding in this way we do not respect the accepted dogma that the history of art has meaning. We claim the absolute supremacy of beauty over social discourse.

Silent bomb because our photography is not a copy of a painting; we create new paintings, never done by painters, after analysis of the forms used by each. Our still lifes are silent mechanisms meticulously armed by the use of the foundations of the artistic image.

We hope
Create new images that nevertheless seem to be eternal objects.
Force the observer to look closely to understand how photography can seem so much like painting.
Transform poverty into an idol.
Showing both the tricks of conventions, and showing that they work in a dazzling way.
Making the Silent Bomb even more terrifying.

Henri PEYRE