Alain Laboile is a French fine art photographer whose series, La Famille received a great deal of attention for the unique and in the moment way he photographs his family. Originally a sculptor, Alain photographs his six children at his home in France, the results of which have generated quite a buzz — including a recent review in the New York Times. Ken had a chance to speak with Alain with the help of his wife, who translates for him.

I’m a father of six. Through my photographic work I celebrate and document my family life : a life on the edge of the world, where intemporality and the universality of childhood meet. Day to day I create a family album that constitues a legacy that I will pass on to my children. My work reflects our way of life, revolving around their childhood. My photographs will be the testimony of that. In a way my approach can be considered similar to the one of an ethnologist. Though my work is deeply personal, it is also accessible, addressing human nature and allowing the viewer to enter my world and reflect on their own childhoods. Fed everyday and shared with the world via the internet, my photographic production has become a mean of communication, leading to a questionning about freedom, nudity, being and having

French photographer Alain LaBoile turns an intimate lens on his six children in La Famille, a series of black-and-white photos capturing the magic of being a child—the innocence, the freedom, the discovery

I’m a father of six. My children are my subject… an endless subject. I just have to look at them, children are creative, you just need to be there waiting for things to happen in the frame and “click”.