Joel Pelerin artwork presented by Arts On Atlantic

Joel Pelerin

artist bio

An amateur photographer since he was a child, becoming manager of a small photo development lab at just sixteen years of age, his Saturdays were more often than not spent in the dark room.He dabbled in Astronomic Photography before turning his attention to the Artistic Nude in 1999.

His inaugural participation at the Nude Photo Festival at Corbier in France was a success and his work was being spoken of as akin to the Indian Ocean’s Sun, his photos being colour rather than the more traditional black and white.He wanted to enhance the beauty of ethnic mix.

He introduced his photos of the Artistic Nude to the local public in Reunion Island by means of his first major exhibition at Stella Matutina in 2004.The exhibition received more than 600 visitors and was a media success.Numerous other exhibitions followed.He featured on the cover of the December 2005 special edition of “Pictures” devoted to the masters of Nude Photography, together with Douglas Kirkland who photographed Marilyn Monroe nude.
His models which he chose himself and who have never posed nude before, had for the most part a complex about their bodies.However, Joel set about improving the image that they had about themselves.In 2005 he chaired a conference which had for a theme, “The therapeutic aspect of the Artistic Nude”.Highlights of this conference were broadcast on France 3’s televised news receiving considerable interest from the public.

The exhibition “Une histoire des Femmes” is scheduled for the 1st of December 2007 at La Possession with a performance of selected dances choreographed by Mme Yun Chane, the creator of the first contemporary dance company on Réunion island.This same exhibition will be held on the 20th December 2007 in Johannesburg, and in an abridged form on the 11th of January 2008 in Calgary Canada.