Laurent Chéhère is a French artist born in Paris. He likes exploring cities and countries as he likes exploring all the fields of the photography from Reportage to Photomontage.

The Flying Houses, started in 2006, are a poetic vision of Paris through which the author questions his era with documentary, aesthetic and intimate concerns. Inspired by the poor and cosmopolitan neighborhoods, he isolates these buildings of their urban context and releases them from the anonymity of the street to tell the life, the dreams and the hopes of these inhabitants. Nostalgia for a lost time also nourishes this work of memory. Resuscitating buildings from the past, he tries to rediscover the taste for childhood and innocence. It’s also a wonderful pretext to invite all these many inspirations. Jules Verne, Hayao Miyazaki, Albert Robida, Moebius, Bruce Davidson, Robert Doisneau, Willy Ronis, Wim Wenders, Federico Fellini, William Klein, Serge Gainsbourg, Jean Cocteau, Marcel Carné are there. These photomontages of hundreds of elements assembled like a puzzle are shown in large format and allow the curious observer to discover hidden details by proposing several reading. From afar these fragile vessels appear carefree and dreamy. Up close, the story is more complex. The artist uses this distance to propose different points of view and to warn against preconceived ideas. Love, drama, laughter and tears … everything becomes entangled in that human comedy. Laurent Chéhère gives us some keys, yet these Flying Houses remain open to interpretation and the imagination of each.

His works were shown at Paris Photo, Art Basel, New York Hudson River Museum, Seoul Lunar Photo Festival, Moscow Lumiere Gallery, Miami Coral Gables Museum, Aix-en-Provence Art Center, Hamburg Persiehl & Heine Gallery, Marseille Museum of Civilisations of Europe & Mediterranean, Bologna Forni Gallery and published in Time magazine, The Guardians, Vogue, Le Monde and La Repubblica.