Les Absents

Pumps are his favorite motif, women his passion, the night his hunting grounds. Since the moment the Frenchman Maxime Ballesteros (*1984) held a camera in his hand for the first time, he has not put it down. He nonchalantly shoots his photographs from the hip, follows his protagonists to wild parties, into private apartments, to the early-morning beach. Shimmering and excessive, sharp and always stylish. It is no wonder that fashion and lifestyle magazines such as Purple, Numéro, Vice, or 032c scramble to get the Berliner-by-choice. The photographer still uses an analog camera, inserts small delays between occurrence and presentation, even when he serves spreads about the last party night and the appetite for his pictures by the fast media is great. A body of work by this cutting edge artist is being published in book form for the first time in collaboration with the visionary culture and fashion network Sang Bleu London.