Canon Digital Learning Center – Interview: Vincent Laforet

Vincent Laforet was born in Switzerland in 1975.  He is one of the true young lions of photography.  His photographs are characterized by great inventiveness, technical sophistication, and a sure compositional eye.  He was a staff photographer for The New York Times from 2000 until 2006, when he modified his contract to became the newspaper’s first national contract photographer.  He has been sent on assignment by Vanity Fair, The New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, Sports Illustrated, Time, Stern, Paris-Match, Newsweek and Life Magazine.  His work has been published in most major magazines around the world, and exhibited at The International Center of Photography in New York and Visa Pour L’Image in Perpignan, France

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