Fabien Baron is a director, photographer and artist. For over three decades, Fabien Baro has been driving the creative industry forward with fresh thinking and iconic visual storytelling for some of the world’s most celebrated brands. His vision encompasses fine art, creative direction, film directing, product design, packaging, furniture and interior design. His work embodies the unique combintion of an elegantly refined aesthetic sensibility with a propulsive drive to explore the unexplored and unexpected.

"Provocation and contemplation. Those two things, turning around in cycles and spirals, are what I hope to have made and shown: the excitement of opposites, the collisions of elegance and energy on a page, or in an object, or just observed in the world that both inhabit.”

The first book to offer an overview of the creative work of Fabien Baron spanning 30 years. A vast inventory of images is sequenced and arranged aesthetically, rather than chronologically or autobiographically, illustrating visual themes that recur organically throughout Baron’s work. A mixture of the historic with the new and the commercial with in-depth creative explorations, provides a rare glimpse inside the mind of a true design, photography, and fashion visionary.


Baron explores juxtapositions of time, theme, and subject matter across all types of media: photography, film, magazines, drawings, sculpture, typography and industrial design. The interplay of these images form an aesthetic logic that is purely Baron’s - a vocabulary of recurring motifs running through over three decades of groundbreaking work. Published by Phaidon, the design of the volume, its materials and composition, is a further extension of the multidisciplinary practice of its subject. The text contains an in-depth conversation between Baron and the celebrated writer and essayist Adam Gopnik along with a forward by long-standing collaborator and muse Kate Moss.


"Some of these images and objects were made on assignment, some as artistic explorations, but I believe that my mind and eye – that everyone’s mind and eye-- functions the same way in either mode. We make our work... and then it reveals itself to have been organized all along around the same themes.”


Baron’s previous published works include the volume Liquid Light 1983-2003, a collection of seascape photography with an introduction by writer and editor Glenn O’Brien, published by Steidl. Monuments, a visual exploration of the frozen coastline of Greenland, followed in 2014. Commissioned by Moncler, the exhibition was presented at Frieze London, and in an accompanying catalogue with text by critic and lecturer Paul Goldberger.