Léon Prost is a Paris based photographer working internationally across editorial, commercial and reportage photography. His practice is shaped by movement between countries, commissions and different social worlds. An attentive and curious way of seeing runs through his work. Before becoming a photographer, Léon worked in real estate, opened restaurants, created a fashion brand and sold oysters. These former lives remain present in his work. They gave him an ease with different environments and a genuine interest in the people he meets.

His photographs are direct, spontaneous and highly subjective. Léon’s subjects are part of their surroundings : architecture, objects, gestures and details carry as much weight as the main person shot. Through shifts of scale, unexpected framing and cropping, the world takes on his particular logic. Spontaneity keeps the photograph open to movement, accident and the presence of others.