Laurent Chevalier(IV)
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Director
- Writer
Living and working in New York City, Laurent Chevalier is an American director and visual artist who utilizes film and photography to shift the frameworks of representative imagery. He is the writer and director of "i am not ok", a short film dealing with navigating solitude. Chevalier seeks to dialogue through past, present and future, while continuously contributing new perspectives of Black America and the African Diaspora into the canon.
As a photographer, he is not solely documentary nor conceptual-- Laurent Chevalier rather navigates the space that borders these genres. Laurent Chevalier's work has been collected by the Schomburg Library, Metropolitan Museum Of Art's Watson Library, Museum Of Modern Art Library, Guggenheim Library, Texas State University Library, and the Green Library at Stanford University. He is an inaugural member of the Black Photographer collective See In Black, and the author of Enough, his artist monograph published through Kris Graves Projects.
As a photographer, he is not solely documentary nor conceptual-- Laurent Chevalier rather navigates the space that borders these genres. Laurent Chevalier's work has been collected by the Schomburg Library, Metropolitan Museum Of Art's Watson Library, Museum Of Modern Art Library, Guggenheim Library, Texas State University Library, and the Green Library at Stanford University. He is an inaugural member of the Black Photographer collective See In Black, and the author of Enough, his artist monograph published through Kris Graves Projects.
