youth index | protest index | blog | email : marc@marcvallee.co.uk | dennis cooper : "marc vallée is one of my favorite contemporary photographers. many artists are photographing the young, but vallée’s work is exceptional and solitary, avoiding the kneejerk tendency to either define the young through their fashion sense or create the impression of communing with them by smothering them with fashionable aesthetics. his photographs are fully interested in their subjects, somehow more respectful of their beauty and emotions and, at the same time, more invasive of their privacy than any other youth oriented images out there. vallée’s work is ravishing, noble, unique, and irresistible." prints above : andreas, williamsburg, brooklyn, nyc, 2006. context : marc vallée has been documenting the energy, self-expression and idealism of different sub-sections of youth culture since the mid 90s. authenticity is what you get with marc, he depicts and shoots what he knows from the inside. this autobiographical approach was first seen in his new jersey images of friends on the east coast of the united states in the summer of 1995. he found that documenting his own surroundings made sense to him and back in london marc's focus soon became the alternative skate, queer and music scenes that he was living and working in. prints above : chris, new jersey, usa, 1995. | andreas, williamsburg, brooklyn, nyc, 2006. | elliot, soho, london, 2005. in 2004 with exhibitions, print sales and awards under his belt marc became artist in residence at sir john cass school of art. over the last few years marc has taken his work into different directions. from the one off photographic installation right, click & save to the long term political protest project as well as the powerful and moving journey to my sister’s funeral exhibition in 2005. the one thing that holds true is that he knows what he is working with, be it grief, lust or a passion to change the world. scott heim : "right, click & save" is brilliant and addictive in the best possible way. marc vallée's past photographs have been consistently inventive and aggressive and far, far more interesting than most of the stuff in magazines or galleries, and this new project adds a new facet to his work. these images agitate our ideas of originality and authorship, of voyeurism and vanity and absolute lust. shown together, they leave the viewer disconcerted, a little horny, and ultimately numb." awards : london photographic awards (2000), aop open (2004). selected exhibitions : "postcards from new jersey" yard gallery, london. (solo/1995) | "london skateboarding scene" film stock centre gallery, london (solo/1996) | artomatic+ gallery, london. (group/2000) | street level gallery, glasgow. (group/2000)| "winners" unit two gallery, london. (group/2001) | "photomonth" alternative arts, london. (group/2001) | curzon soho gallery, london. (solo/2001) | "fuckgravity -a photo/film skateboarding event" duke of york picture house, brighton. (solo/2002) | programa gallery, mexico city, mexico. (group/2002), "aop open” (group/2004) | "journey to my sister’s funeral" london metropolitan university (solo/2005) | "between the lines" fovea gallery, london. (group/2005) | "right, click & save" anti-social, london (solo/2006). selected client list : adrenalin magazine, attitude magazine, amnesty magazine, bbc news, big cheese magazine, british journal of photography, blowback magazine, channel 4, gay times magazine, k-swiss, kaiserin magazine, la repubblica, phil mcintyre entertainment, playstation (sony), sleazenation magazine, the guardian, guardian unlimited, the observer, the times education supplement, time out magazine (london), time out magazine (new york), viewpoint magazine and xy magazine. prints above : dan, london, 1999. | skirtbox playing at the blue room in watford, 2000. | lloyd and jamie, east london, 1997. youth archive : three large searchable archives of hi-resolution digital images for a variety of editorial and commercial clients is available for rights managed editorial licensing via pymca, model release and jupiter images. © marc vallée. all rights reserved. moral rights asserted under copyright designs & patents act 1988. full terms and conditions for digital and traditional use available on request. no part of image(s) to be stored, reproduced, manipulated or transmitted by any means without permission. nuj / ifj / bppa /