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Francis Leroy

Francis Leroy

Shifting sand, beach dream

Once upon a time, there was a beach destined to vanish, like half the world’s shores by century’s end. The sand moving with the ebb and flow of the tides attracts an ever more passive and carefree humanity. Soon, from this beach will remain only a dream.

Awards

World Photo Annual

2025

Honorable Mention

Fine Art

Professional

Shifting sand, beach dream

Once upon a time, there was a beach destined to vanish, like half the world’s shores by century’s end. The sand moving with the ebb and flow of the tides attracts an ever more passive and carefree humanity. Soon, from this beach will remain only a dream.

About Artist

Francis Leroy

I pursue an unfulfilled quest for beauty — not a static or merely aesthetic beauty, but one that awakens, that moves, that resonates. Through my lens, I strive to reveal the hidden emotion within the moment, to draw out the silence of a gaze, the grace of a landscape, the soul of a detail one only perceives by taking the time to look differently. My gaze wanders between sky and earth. It soars in aerial views that redraw the world — fields, shorelines, geometric rhythms — then descends back to the human scale, into the intimacy of a face, a gesture, an inhabited place. I play with textures, lines, contrasts, light… to compose images that do not merely tell what is seen, but what is felt. Each photograph is, for me, a fragment of silence, a suspended breath. Whether it is a flight of birds, a hidden path, a face glimpsed in a narrow street of Bhaktapur, or a flax field trembling in the wind, I am always seeking the same thing: that instant when beauty turns into emotion. I invite one to see differently, to feel more deeply. To be moved, quite simply. My images do not aim to freeze reality, but to reveal what beauty whispers when it touches the soul: an emotion, fleeting yet eternal.

Francis Leroy

Photographic Areas of Focus

Aerial, Fine Art, Landscapes, Minimalism, Portrait

Location

France

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