TITLE: DESIRE

« Desire » is not about wanting someone, it is about the state of wanting itself.

This series explores desire as a suspended condition, a tension held between shadow and light, between the self and its reflection. Shot in high-contrast black and white, the images strip away color to reveal what remains underneath: an interior landscape of longing, ambiguity, and presence.

Mirrors fragment the subject deliberately. Desire, by nature, resists wholeness. We never fully possess what we want, just as the subject is never entirely seen. The body becomes a territory of details: a shoulder, a gaze, a hand against skin. Light carves and conceals in equal measure.

These photographs do not depict desire as an object or a destination. They inhabit it, that precise, wordless moment before wanting finds its name.

Credits :
Photographer: Florent Le Roux
Model: Mao Xiaoxing
Hair: May Stellar
Makeup: Elora Obrecht
Stylist: Alexandra Pavlova
Assistant Stylist: Alix Deschamps

AUTHOR: FLORENT LE ROUX (France)

Director and photographer, I come from image-making, and more specifically from advertising, before expanding my vision towards cinema.

At the age of seven, I was already making my first films with a HI8 camcorder, surrounded by my childhood friends. Those moments were spaces of play, imagination and freedom. Very early on, I understood that creating images allowed me to transform reality, to give it meaning. And above all, to share emotions. I promised myself I would never stop.

Before the cameras, there was drawing. Years spent at the Beaux-Arts in Versailles observing shadows, lines, bodies and light. It was there that I learned how to truly see. To understand that what matters most is not only what we see, but what circulates between two gazes and the glimmers of light.

In Paris, at film school, I acquired technique, discipline and the language of framing in the directing department. I then continued to train in the field — shooting, editing, experimenting — within the worlds of luxury, fashion and advertising. This diversity taught me one essential thing: aesthetics only have strength when they serve a sincere emotion and a clear message. An image must tell a story, resonate and leave a mark.

Over the course of various projects, I have had the opportunity to direct music videos, commercials and fashion films for titles such as Vogue, L’Officiel, Vanity Fair, Harper's Bazaar and Numéro. Collaborations that have strengthened my standards and refined my eye.

I am a photographer and director who thinks through image and sensation. I tell stories of states, impulses and transformations. I love light when it sculpts, colours when they converse, textures when they become narrative. I film tensions and emotions, but also rebirths. What shifts, what evolves.

Today, I create works at the frontier between reality and sensation. Narratives where aesthetics amplify emotion, where the intimate meets the collective, where image becomes a living language. I work with precision, sometimes with obsession, but always with enthusiasm and conviction.

For me, to tell a story is to create a connection. To move and to make others feel.

And each new project is an opportunity to go further, more precisely and more deeply.