Big World Picture: Photographer's highlight #20 Agnes Spaak

Boulogne-Billancourt born Agnés Spaak comes from an Artistic family. Her father is Belgian screenwriter Charles Spaak, noted for his work in French cinema. Charles Spaak wrote or contributed to more than 100 film screenplays.

Agnés lived in France until, at the age of 17, she moved to Milan where started her acting career following in the footsteps of her mother actress Claudie Cleves. Agnés settled in Italy and in the mid-seventies she left to follow her passion of photography, becoming a photographer for fashion companies and with the publishing house Rusconi Libri , with whom she collaborated with for many years.

After over 20 years in the photography business Agnés found herself moving towards the Fine-art side of photography. This year she has had and exhibition called “Le reve dans le reve” (“A dream inside a dream”), you can find a video to go with this on THIS LINK on YouTube.

Agnés finds her inspiration in all kinds of Art, finding it via painting, Surrealism, poetry and music. As well as photography Agnés likes to use her it as collage and making her photography the same way as other artist would in paintings. Agnés continues to travel the globe creating fashion shoots for advertising and her personal exhibitions.

Agnés can be found on Instagram under the user-name of agnesspaak2011

Her work can also be found on Instagram group Likesmagazine

More about Agnés can be found on her EyeEm Blog “the wonderful work of Agnes Spaak”

Below is are some examples of her truly inspiring works. I find them beautiful and sometimes haunting but always a joy to look at and find myself looking at her work for long lengths of time.