Galerie Lelong & Co. presents at Paris Photo 2022 a solo show of photographer Jean-Baptiste Huynh's latest series, Flower Children, shot among an ethnic group in the Omo Valley, Ethiopia in 2021.
The specificity of this original series lies in the encounter between the artist and these people with extraordinary ancestral practices: women dress as flowers or birds, children dress as stars, constellations, men decorate themselves with veins, hands or stripes. Jean-Baptiste Huynh lived in immersion for months with this ethnic group. The works, portraits and body studies are of an unprecedented pictorial intensity. They reveal a new chapter in his photographic journey where the questions of self-image and the quest for beauty remain ever renewed.
Hanna and Antonio Damasio, internationally renowned neuroscientists, specialists in consciousness and emotions, are the curators of this solo show.
