[GAETAN PORTRAIT]
Gaetan Bernede
Wet plate photographer
London
Gaetan Bernede is a London-based photographer and director working across fashion, jewellery and beauty. Trained in graphic design at Central Saint Martins, his image-making is grounded in visual and technical research and carried by conceptual thinking.
He works with the wet-plate collodion process, making individual photographic objects by hand. Each sitting involves preparing, exposing and developing the plate in real time.
He is also a framer, allowing selected portraits to leave the studio as complete physical pieces.
His work moves between editorial and commercial: campaigns, films and editorials.
Studio
In the darkroom
Film
Gaetan speaking
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Record
Selected
Clients
- Dior
- Fendi
- Gucci
- Cassina
- Audemars Piguet
- Richard Mille
- Belmond
- Boodles
- Amouage
- AKYN
- Pariser
Press
- Port Magazine
- Document Journal
- Financial Times
- QP
- Infringe
Exhibitions
- 2016Central Saint Martins Degree Show — group show
- 2018Les Nuits de l'Art London — group show
- 2019Dying Flowers — solo show, Caravanserail
- 2022Marabylia, Lyon Arts Biennale — group show
- 2023Warbling Collective — group show
- 2024Ceremonies, with Emma Witter