Who am I?

My name is Laurent (click on my name if you’re wondering how to pronounce it) and I was born in Paris, France. After growing up in Versailles (yes, not far from the famous palace just outside of Paris) for almost twenty years, I moved to the United States to pursue my college education. Now more than twenty years later, I am still here and enjoying life in Arizona with my beautiful wife Kathryn.

In college, I studied advertising, marketing, public relations, photojournalism & communication. I’ve always been a very visual person and have always enjoyed photography, drawing, multimedia techniques and graphic design. I’ve also always enjoyed traveling and discovering other cultures as well as playing sports (mostly tennis, volley-ball and skiing).

Like many photographers, I became interested in photography at a young age. If I remember correctly, my first camera was a Polaroid when I was 7 or 8 years old and I loved taking pictures of my family. In my teen years, I moved on to a 35mm Nikon F501 camera that my parents offered to me for Christmas and I used Paris and its street life as my canvas to practice my skills. While in high school, I also started taking pictures at nearby Roland-Garros during the French Open of tennis whenever I could. This is when I started selling my first pictures and when I started thinking of photography as something that could eventually become more than “just” a hobby. College provided me some formal training and additional experience in other visual and multimedia techniques.

In 2007, I finally decided to jump in and create Studio Laurent to combine my passions and talents into a creative photography and design studio. I am an on-location, natural light photographer and prefer to use natural surroundings and backgrounds.

In my spare time, along with playing tennis regularly, I enjoy traveling the world or my neighborhood to discover other cultures, new landscapes, new faces and immortalizing these special moments with my cameras. Over the years, I have traveled extensively throughout Europe, the Indian Ocean region, The Caribbean, Mexico and more than half of the United States of America and look forward to discovering more everyday.

So far, my photographic adventures and assignments have taken me to beautiful destinations in France, Italy, the Czech Republic, The Caribbean and Mexico. I am bilingual French/English and have working knowledge of Spanish. I am currently based in Scottsdale, Arizona and as you can tell, will travel anywhere in the world.

Please feel free to contact me via email at: studiolaurent@yahoo.com, via Skype at: StudioLaurent or by phone at: +1 (702) 569-6997 to discuss your photographic needs and the services that I offer.

I would like to thank you for visiting my blog and website and hope that you enjoy my work. Your comments and suggestions are also very much welcomed so please do not hesitate to leave a few words so I know you stopped by, it will make my day!

But more than anything I hope to have the pleasure of working with you on your photographic needs.

Thank you,
Laurent

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