Author photographer — Paris

Vincent Jeannot

Vincent Jeannot is a fine art photographer exploring the dramaturgy of the body, from the dance stage to digital creation.

His research materializes today in Corps Obscura, a photobook conceived as a closed-door exploration. Away from the stage, dancers and performers explore movement through directed improvisation. From the organic confrontation with clay to the integration of artificial intelligence as a true choreographic partner, the work deconstructs anatomy to border on abstraction. This project brings matter, Dante’s work, and digital scenography into dialogue. Generative AI unfolds a visual universe dictated by the previously chosen canto. At the heart of this virtual set, the posture and gestures of the performers remain strictly intact, without the slightest bodily alteration.

This studio work follows years of immersion on stage. This site thus reveals the entirety of the author's live performance photographic archives. More than two hundred shows are documented here. These galleries bear witness to a gaze forged in the urgency of live performance, in close contact with creation and contemporary dance companies.

Generative Spaces — Inferno Canto XXX — Corps Obscura: Inferno, Canto XXX. Performer: Sarah Garnaud. AI-generated digital scenography (Nanobana).

Photo book

· First edition available

Corps Obscura

A self-published photobook, Corps Obscura documents an exploration of the body through directed improvisation, structured around the Divine Comedy and the work of Rodin. The book unfolds in three acts: the organic confrontation of the models with raw clay, followed by the fragmentation of bodies in radical black and white abstraction, to conclude with the enrichment of this theme through generative artificial intelligence. In this final act, the algorithm designs a digital scenography around the performers according to the intentions of the chosen canto, without ever altering the original photography.

Format: 20 × 25 cm
Pages: 92
Edition: Print on demand

Order — 62 € HT

Introduction01 / 05
Argile & Matière I02 / 05
Argile & Matière II03 / 05
Abstract Body04 / 05
Generative Spaces — Inferno05 / 05

Previous publication

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2011, a year of contemporary dance

Sold out — Limited self-published edition, pocket format. Selection of 25 major contemporary dance pieces photographed in 2011.

Pièces présentées : Contrastes (Misook Seo), Lointain (Alban Richard), Luisance (Alban Richard), Pacifique (Nasser Martin-Gousset), Entrelacs (Lionel Hoche), Running Sushi (Liquid Loft), The Truth A Tragedy (Cynthia Hopkins), Prison des délits de coeur (Malek Sebai et Sondos Belhassen), Kelma...Un cri à la mère (Meryem Jazouli), Dervish (Ziya Azazi), Bouncing Universe in a Bulk (Eric Arnal Burtschy), JJ's Voices (Benoît Lachambre), Roméo et Juliette (Joëlle Bouvier), Daphnis é Chloé (Jean-Claude Gallotta), Nos images (Mathilde Monnier), Le Cygne (Andrea Sitter), Ouvrez ! (Sylvain Prunenec), Pina Jackson in Mercemoriam (Foofwa d'Imobilité), Diorama (Martin Chaput et Martial Chazallon), Les temps tiraillés (Myriam Gourfink), Valse en trois temps (Christian et François Ben Aïm), Avant-propos (Roser Montlló Guberna et Brigitte Seth), - transire - (Emmanuelle Vo-Dinh), Les bois de l'ombre (Maxence Rey), Mémoires d'Oubliettes (Jiří Kylián), Underneath (Medhi Walerski), Héros Ordinaires (Sylvain Groud), Minotaure (Virginie Mirbeau).

Stage Archives

A heritage archive documenting over a decade of activity as a professional live performance photographer. This preservation work gathers more than 316 documented shows — from rehearsals to stage performances — made available today to dancers, companies, and stage art enthusiasts.

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