FrenchKiss

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Anders Petersen is a world-renowned photographer, noted for his intimate and personal documentary-style black-and-white photographs. Petersen explores the fringes of society, and his images depict a raw, and sometimes disturbingly brutal, social portrait. Taken in the south of France, <i>FrenchKiss </i>is characteristic Petersen, exuding the poetic sadness, restlessness, and sense of urgency that runs through all his work. Petersen first became known for his series <i>Café Lehmitz</i>, the book of which is now regarded as seminal in the history of European photography. He has published more than twenty books and has been exhibited widely.