Anne-Catherine Becker-Echivard is great artist of this amazing art of fish. She was inspired by the silent movies of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. She uses real-life fish heads for make her photos that describe routine to address topics ranging from Aids to repression.

The 37 year old says “Fish are a great method of communicating my opinions on this world,'. 11 year ago, she has gone on to make a school of art that has left detractors open-mouthed. That time she fell in Love with the humble mackerel and sardine.

She begins fishing around for a topical idea, regularly gleaned from the radio or a newspaper. Then she takes a blank sheet of paper and starts to prepare with thoughts before visiting the vast Rungis food market in Paris. She says “using fish can be a very obviously silly way of expressing a variety of emotions.” She also admits “The eyes are very important in the picture, and they must be dark.”

Anne Catherine got knowledge about the fish to her childhood when she spent her vacation in the village of Pirou on the Normandy coast. Anne and her brother played with them like a dolls. And she loved to have a sardine or a mackerel in her pocket. She became a full-blown obsession, when she took 9 months of instruction in documentary photography in 1997.

During photo shoots she treats her models with wet paper. She says lovingly “It’s hot under the spotlights, so I just take care that my lead doesn’t get cooked before he gets his chance at fame.”

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