Laurent Ballesta, seas and mysteries

par Philippe  -  15 Avril 2025, 08:34

Laurent Ballesta, seas and mysteries

Exhibition at the Musée de la photographie de Nice until September 28th 2025, 1 square Pierre Gautier, 06000 Nice, daily open except Tuesdays (10am - 6pm), ticket full price : 5€.

 

 

Laurent Ballesta has followed scientific studies, written many books about submarine pictures and participated too the famous TV show "Ushuaïa" as advisor. With the help of this show he learns how making pictures and decide to build three differents ways. Laurent Ballesta looks for scientific mysteries, develops his love for underwater world and last constructs unknown animal pictures. With the support of sponsors seduced and reassured like the Suez group, Bloomberg Philanthropies and also the city of Nice he succeeds having enough money for his work. Laurent Ballesta has involved himself highly in exhibitions like the famous inside the French Senate names "Planète Mers" and also in the eight "Gombessa" expeditions all around the world for French and other TV networks. Today he has selected 53 pictures coming from the Adelie sea, the sharcks, the Pacific ocean and the Mediterranean sea. Towards these pictures Laurent Ballesta has created a relationship between aesthetic, forms, moving and sensitive in underwater world. People can dive among penguins, watching the sharcks choregraphy or discovering a fascinanting underworld not far from the waterfront.

Laurent Ballesta ''Plongeon des manchots Adélie", Terre Adélie.

Laurent Ballesta ''Plongeon des manchots Adélie", Terre Adélie.

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