Laurent
Chéhère
(French, born 1972) only began exhibiting his photography in
2012—before then, he was solely known as an award-winning editorial
and commercial photographer. A shift in interest led Chéhère to
leave advertising behind to travel around the world. It was during
this that he began to kindle his love for architecture and its
narrative possibilities. Chéhère’s most famous series, titled
“Flying Houses” (2012–), is comprised of fictional buildings
suspended above backdrops of clouded skies. Each image is a composite
of up to a dozen real buildings, homes, tents, and trailers that
Chéhère has photographed in similar lighting conditions, and
composited using Photoshop. Chéhère describes the series as a means
to help buildings tell their stories, whether “real or not, funny
or sad.”
