Lucia Calpe, a French native, started photography when she was 15 years old after her godmother offered her the mythical camcorder: Canon AE1 argentic.
Open minded and dreamer by nature, Lucia’s worldview is one of peace, harmony, and peaceful co-existence. Through her photography art, Lucia has a simple philosophy of life, aiming at curiosity towards other cultures. She could take Lamartine’s verse “O time, suspend thy flight!” as her own: photography is about looking for beauty in details, looking on how to freeze a moment, an encounter, an eye look. Very talkative and dynamic by nature, she would look while taking photographs of landscape always for peace, quiet, silence. When she started photography, she mostly focused on Black & White photography and developed her pictures in the darkroom lab of her high school. She never stopped photography, even when she was in college in Paris, where she completed her PhD in French Literature, focusing on how different cultures interact with each other through their own perspectives. Then, she taught French over a decade, to students from various ethnic backgrounds.
Her passion for photography continued to grow when she moved to Singapore in 2008, where she developed a great interest in South Asian culture. Lucia Calpe used a Nikon D90 and now a Nikon D610, which enabled her to improve her expertise in the field, by photographing extensively through Asia (Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, India ....).
After spending 7 years in Singapore, Lucia Calpe moved to Delhi (India) for 6 years and is now located in Johannesburg (South Africa).
