French photographer Brigitte Lacombe lives in New York City.
Her loves are portraits and traveling.
A retrospective book of her work from 1975-2001,
"Lacombe cinema/theater" is published by Schirmer/Mosel.
Brigitte left school to be an apprentice at the black and white lab of Elle in Paris.
In 1975, at the Cannes Film Festival, she met Dustin Hoffman and Donald Sutherland. They invited her to the film sets of "Fellini's Casanova" and "All the President's Men". In 1975 in Los Angeles, she met Steven Spielberg, who invited her to work on the set of "Close Encounters of the Third Kind".
David Mamet, in 1983, took her to The Goodman Theater in Chicago for the original production of "Glengarry Glen Ross". Gregory Mosher was the director. When in 1985 Mosher came to New York City as the artistic director of Lincoln Center Theater, he asked her to be its first and only staff photographer. She worked with him and Lincoln Center Theater for seven years.
Brigitte visits film sets as a special photographer, documenting movies from "behind-the-scenes", making portraits of actors in character, and shooting film posters.
She works closely with directors Mike Nichols, Martin Scorsese and Anthony Minghella, and most recently worked on films such as The Devil Wears Prada, Factory Girl, Marie Antoinette, The Good Shepherd, The Departed, Breaking & Entering, King Kong, The Libertine.
Brigitte is also a travel photographer.
She has been under contract for 20 years with Conde Nast Traveler, shooting most recently in Mongolia, Africa, Papua New Guinea, Cambodia, Afghanistan, Shanghai, and Patagonia.
She contributes to Vanity Fair, GQ, The New Yorker, Paris Vogue, House and Garden, and The New York Times Magazine among many others.
