Pierre Berdoy

Who is Pierre Berdoy?

Pierre Berdoy was born in Biarritz in 1936. He is a French photographer of architecture, design, still life and beauty. Winner of the Niépce Prize in 1967, he collaborated on projects with French magazines such as L’Œil, Elle, Madame Figaro and other publications until the 2000s.

He first gained professional recognition in 1967 for a series of pictures entitled The life of a fighting bull. His still life pictures for magazines then attracted a following during the Back-to-Nature movement of that time. Later he would apply graphic rigour to portraits and female bodies which was successfully received in the beauty pages of magazines.