Shooting intimate portraits of his friends, collaborators and lovers as they cross the City of Light in a whirl of hedonistic youth, Pierre Ange-Carlotti is the documentarian of Paris' 21st century youth.

Pierre-Ange Carlotti is the enfant terrible of Parisian society. He has proved, with a daring approach to photography, that his vision is not only defiant and provocative, but also a document of a fascinating reality that often escapes the public eye. His work is a delightful blend of French savoir faire and the boldness of youth. He is friends with many of the most important young icons of the fashion industry in Paris, and as a photographer he has become the favourite documentarian of the alternative lifestyle of the city's youth.

– I-D.vice

Q&A:

COL: Who are you and what do you do?
PAC: My name is Pierre-Ange Carlotti and I’m a photographer.

COL: What characterize you work? How would you describe your personal style?
PAC: I do intimate documentation.

COL: How do your own experiences influence your work?
PAC: It’s all about them.

COL: What will you be showing at the uncontaminated festival?  
PAC: Pictures of the most important women in my life and footage of total strangers walking on the beach. Everything shot in my hometown in Corsica. 

COL: What do you want to communicate through your work? Is there a message - political or otherwise?
PAC: All I want to talk about is love. 

COL: Do artists of today have some kind of of social responsibility?
PAC: When you expose yourself to an audience perhaps you get a chance to impact on some of them directly. 

COL: What is the most important thing in your life?
PAC: People I care about.

COL: How do you feel right now?
PAC: A certain kind of stoned.

COL: If you could change one thing in the world today, what would it be?
PAC: I would make it possible to walk on the sea from Corsica to Italy.  

COL: What are the main reasons you are joining us for the festival this year?
PAC: I just did a book signing in Berlin at the 032C workshop and it was the very first time I was doing something outside of my town - Paris - without a brand and a team, just on my own with my personal work and my name and it happened to be a very interesting experience. People come without gloves, either they like it or they don’t but they’re not here because they are your friends. I enjoyed that honesty. 

COL: What is the most important drive for you to create and why?
PAC: I’m scared of losing the need to create, because this need is very independent from me. I often realize that something exists only after living it. 

COL: Who or what do you value as a great inspiration for you creatively?
PAC: People that have shocked me, Virginie Despentes, Robert Mapplethorpe and Gaspar Noé. 

COL: Can you elaborate on an important moment in your life where you experienced a big change, choose to make one or another event which altered your way of thinking or your approach to creativity ?
PAC: When I shot for Jacquemus the first time, it was the first time I did a job with my images, and my zero technic and my films and my little camera. I realized that time that this was work.