Talent and Partner was founded in 2009 by Mariam Boulares and Ingrid Janowski. The agency, based both in Paris and New-York, represents fashion, still life, landscape, portrait and lifestyle photographers alongside directors, fashion stylists, set designers.
These artists have been published in various international publications such as Vogue Paris, Vogue Japan, Vogue China, Numéro, Numéro Tokyo, Numéro China, Harper’s Bazaar & its international editions, Fantastic Man, The Gentlewoman, Dazed & Confused, Purple Fashion Magazine, Le Monde d’Hermès, T Magazine, M Le Monde, ELLE, Uomo Vogue, Man of the world, Wallpaper, Port Magazine, Architecture Digest, Travel & Leisure, the NY Times Magazine, Time Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, the New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Bloomberg Pursuits, etc… Their clients include Hermès, Louis Vuitton, Chanel, Cartier, Chopard, Van Cleef & Arpels, Jaeger Lecoultre, Rolex, Roger Vivier, Louboutin, Clinique, Lancôme, Vichy, Nars, Shiseido, Biotherm, Bergdorf Goodman, Hennessy, Paco Rabanne, Air France, Nike, among others. Some of these pictures and projects were exhibited and/or published in monographs, and awarded in various countries.
Born in Paris in 1972, Ambroise Tézenas graduated from the Applied Arts School of Vevey, Switzerland in 1994. First based in London and then Paris, he worked as a photo-journalist for both french and international magazines, spending much of his time traveling in South East Asia, Central and South America.
From 2001, Ambroise has essentially devoted his time to landscape photography and started a 5 year project witnessing the changes happening in Beijing before hosting the Olympics and in 2006, gained international recognition through his first book, Beijing, Theatre of the People, which won the European Publisher’s Award for Photography. Published in seven languages, this project was exhibited at many venues in Europe and Asia, including the Kunsthal Museum in Rotterdam and the Arles Photography Festival in France.
In 2009 he won the Nikon Story Teller Award for his photographs of Cuba commissioned by the New York Times Magazine and was shortlisted for the Prix de Académie des Beaux-Arts and the Pictet Prize in 2012. Represented by Galerie Mélanie Rio (France), his work is part of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France collection.
Photographer and author, his latest book, I Was here (Dewi Lewis Publishing 2014), captures though landscape photography people’s increasing interest in visiting places linked to death and destruction.
His work features regularly in major international publications, including the New York Times Magazine and The New Yorker, and his client list includes Rolex and Orange, among others.