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JEAN-FRANÇOIS NATUREL
Author photographer

GRANDPARISJEF – JEAN-FRANÇOIS NATUREL
Author photographer
Photographic series – Art photography
Paris, Greater Paris and France

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Urban and brutalist architecture

As an author photographer, I am interested in the often neglected urban complexes of Greater Paris, such as the Aillaud Towers , La Défense or the Palacio d'Abraxas . I want my work to have both a documentary dimension and an aesthetic aspect, which reveal the beauty and artistic potential of these forgotten places. Each image translates my photographic vision, highlighting the lines, volumes and visual power of these little-known urban spaces.

 

As an author photographer based in the Paris region, I develop a body of work focused on architecture, urban design, and minimalism. My focus is on the lines, shapes, and contrasts that shape our everyday urban landscapes. Each image is conceived as an artistic composition, where geometric rigor blends with a documentary and poetic dimension.


Through my photographic series, I explore the city as a space of creation and memory. I am currently preparing new exhibitions and limited editions of fine art prints, in order to offer everyone the opportunity to acquire a unique work.

 

This artistic work is part of a process of sharing: bringing contemporary photography into living and working spaces, and inviting the eye to rediscover our urban environment in a different way.

Minimalist photography

My minimalist photography series explores the often-overlooked angles and spaces of the city, offering a unique photographic perspective on places that are often overlooked. Both documentary and artistic, this work reveals the hidden beauty of Greater Paris, highlighting the lines and volumes of urban spaces.

 

My photographic gaze explores the simple forms and lines of the urban landscape. The minimalist approach I strive to develop is often one in which photography becomes a space of balance, revealing the understated beauty of contemporary urban architecture.


Halfway between documentary testimony and aesthetic expression, my approach aims to offer a new reading of everyday life, isolating the essential. These series, soon to be available as art prints, offer a unique perspective on the city—pure, graphic, and I hope poetic.

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Photo reports for businesses

My business photo reports combine documentary observation and artistic sensibility, offering an original photographic perspective that highlights your company's identity with authenticity and creativity.

 

My approach to photojournalism is based on visual storytelling: each business, each craftsman, each location has a unique story that must be revealed. My role as an author photographer is to capture its soul, its gestures, its materials, its lighting, everything that makes your business unique.


I favor small businesses, hotels, guesthouses and independent designers, for whom image is not only a communication tool, but a true expression of their identity.


Through a photographic perspective that is both documentary and aesthetic, I create reports that tell the story of everyday life, promote know-how and create an emotional connection with your audience.


Each series becomes a visual, authentic and lasting testimony, which illustrates your story and embodies the values of your brand.

Limited Edition Art Prints

My fine art prints showcase my photographic eye on often overlooked subjects, combining documentary and aesthetics. Each print captures the power of urban architecture, the sobriety of minimalism, and the singularity of my artistic compositions. These exclusive works are intended for collectors, art lovers, and professionals who wish to discover and potentially acquire unique and original images.

 

 

Selling fine art prints is the next step in my work as an author photographer. In 2026, a first collection of limited-edition prints will be released, bringing together my most representative series: urban architecture, minimalist photography, and landscapes of Greater Paris.

 

These artistic photographic series will be accompanied by photo books and will serve as the basis for future exhibitions. On this subject, I am looking for venues that could host photography exhibitions in 2026.


Each image will be carefully selected, printed on museum-quality fine art paper, numbered and accompanied by a certificate of authenticity, signed by me.


This project is part of an approach that is both artistic and heritage-based: offering works that bear witness to reality, while seeking a more authentic emotion.


These art prints, intended for amateurs, collectors or businesses, will extend the link between my photographic series and the living space of those who receive them - like a tangible trace of this view of the world.

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My photographic gaze

Each image reflects my unique photographic perspective, which focuses on often forgotten and neglected subjects, whether urban and brutalist architecture, minimalist photography, fine art prints, or corporate photo reports. My approach combines documentary testimony and aesthetic expression, resulting in original and singular images that are at once sensitive, precise, and poetic.

Towards new photographic horizons

Upcoming projects and new explorations

 

My work as an author photographer continues to evolve towards varied and original subjects: natural landscapes, classical heritage, series inspired by literary works, surrealist images, and even projects created with artificial intelligence. Each project will retain my unique photographic eye and aesthetic sensibility, to explore new artistic territories and offer new and original images.

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