Anne de Gelas is an Belgian photographer and artist, working mainly in self-portrait and the telling of certains aspects, often very intimate, of her personal life.
In particular, Anne de Gelas published two photobooks, L'Amoureuse (Le Caillou Bleu, 2013 - sold out) and Mère et Fils (Loco éditions, 2017) about the premature of her partner, her grief and her bereavement, and the (re)construction of her life and that of their son, and of their relationship as a new 2-people entity.
© Self-portrait by Anne de Gelas, taken from the artist's website
Presentation by Éditions Loco : [translation L'Ascenseur Végétal] "After the shock of the death of her partner, the father of her son, Anne De Gelas focused on the new shrunken family unit. Mère et Fils (Mother and Son) is this face-to-face relationship, this intense bond, and - in the heart of this situation - the permanence of feminity and desire,...
.Sold out. From the publisher : " T., my lover and father of my son, died on April 5, 2010 of a brain stroke. He fell beside us on a beach at the North Sea. The violence of his death put me in front of a big void…a silence that echoed in my head only equal to the brightness of the blue sky which no planes crossed because of the ashes of a volcano in...