Between Us

Vincent Lagrange is renowned for his intimate portraits of animals, capturing their character, dignity, and individuality with the sensitivity usually reserved for human portraiture. In Between Us, he brings together evocative color and black-and-white photographs that explore the profound connection between humans and the animals who share our world.

Lagrange discovered his passion for photography in his father's studio, where he spent much of his childhood. It was there that he developed his distinctive approach, first photographing his feline companion Dwiezel and experimenting with portrait techniques traditionally used for people. The result is a remarkable body of work in which animals appear not simply as subjects, but as individuals with their own presence and personality.

With its intimate and expressive portraits, Between Us offers a fascinating insight into Lagrange's photographic artistry and invites us to look at animals in a different way. A beautifully produced volume for lovers of photography, animals, and fine art.

Born in 1988, Belgian photographer Vincent Lagrange was given a cat named Dwiezel as a child, who lost an eye after an illness. He began documenting her dignified handling of this suffering - the start of his series in which he portrays animals as unique personalities. Lagrange takes his models seriously, transferring the techniques from portrait photography that he learned from a young age in the studio of his father Marc Lagrange to his animal counterparts. In the razor-sharp and perfectly lit pictures, we are confronted with real personalities, each unique in its own way. With his portraits, Lagrange wants to give these individuals a voice that we should treat with respect. This volume brings together for the first time Lagrange's dog pictures, which form the core of his animal portraits. Shot against neutral, mostly dark backgrounds, they radiate dignity and wisdom as in the portraits of old masters. Pictures in which one always notices new details and cannot get enough of them.