BEHIND THE LENS.
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Nathalie Lamoral began her professional life in London where, as a young stylist she showed a keen eye for detail and an innate flair for sets and fashion. She quickly carved a name for herself in the design of record-sleeves for, among others, Abba, Elkie Brooks, Kate Bush, Bing Crosby and Elton John.
After working with Gered Mankowitz, the renowned portraitist to rock stars, she decided to launch herself as a photographer.
After ten years allied to the fashion industry, she shifted her focus from models to personalities, photographing Rosanna Arquette, Agnès B, Manolo Blahnik, Joan Collins, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Marc Jacobs, Eva Joly, Andrée Putnam, Yves Saint Laurent, Honor Blackman and Valentino.
Her work has appeared in British Vogue, Harper's & Queen, W, GQ, The Sunday Times, The Telegraph, The Observer, The Guardian, French Elle, British Elle, Cosmopolitan, El País, The Independent and The Traveller.
Wanting to further her creative potential she later moved to Paris to study interior architecture at the prestigious École Boulle. Her work as an interior architect, both commercial and domestic, includes projects which have taken her beyond France to the UK, Malta, Portugal, Italy and the USA.
When, in 2011, a client gave her a digital Leica, Nathalie discovered a renewed love of photography, resulting in a body of work which has been exhibited at the Ibu Gallery in the Palais Royal, the Galerie Caplain-Matignon, and the Galerie Arielle D'Hauterives; and in January 2014 Isabelle Reynders acquired several of Nathalie's prints for the Christian Liaigre showroom in Brussels.
Since that time, Nathalie has been pursuing a variety of projects, both design-led and photographic.
Recently returned from an extended trip to Japan with her friend, the author Eric Chaline, she is currently working on several articles and completing her book on women "Femme".
© Nathalie Lamoral