We proudly facilitated Jean-Francois Rauzier’s residency at Giverny, the home of Impressionist master Claude Monet from 1883 to 1926. From May to July, he stayed in a large cottage on this wonderful property, about 40 miles north of Paris, which inspired so many of Monet's most beloved works. Using the famous gardens and pond designed by Monet, and even the interior of Monet’s home and studio, Rauzier has created a stunning series of new works responding to the legacy of the great artist.

Rauzier took many thousands of photographs and then meticulously stitched together literally hundreds of images for each individual work to create this series of fantastical photographic Hyperphotos. With Giverny, he's made new fantastic landscapes, a capricious pictures, baroque masterpieces. There are works incorporating the famous pond, the Japanese bridge, the main house and Monet’s studio, and some more abstracted works featuring only flowers. He works in some ways more like a painter than a photographer, creating his own supernatural man-made world. He strives to transform the world according to his dreams, wishes and anxieties, and to recreate the magic and secrecy of ancient legends and stories using 21st century media.

Jean-Francois Rauzier is an internationally acclaimed photographer, who has had museum shows in Paris, Moscow, Los Angeles and Washington DC. Waterhouse & Dodd is his exclusive agent in the USA, UK and Middle East and has shown his work in exhibitions and fairs in New York, Palm Beach, Miami, Los Angeles, Abu Dhabi, Maastricht and London, selling over 200 of his ‘Hyperphotos’.

Rauzier’s work transforms reality; it fascinates us with its scale and takes the viewer on a journey through the visible world. Rauzier uses thousands of high-resolution close-ups views and stitches them into his large compositions, maintaining the focus and sharpness of the smallest detail.

Of course, none of his mastery of technology would be worthy unless it was combined with a true artistic vision. Rauzier also possesses a deep knowledge of literature, art history and history, and utilizes all these with his unique wit and humor.