Antoine Schneck

A retrospective monograph of his work was published in October 2021 by InFine éditions d'art.

Besides his portraits of human faces taken in villages worldwide (or on commission), his black-background photographies also include a series of celebrity dogs, commissioned by the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, a series on millenary olive trees, sold to private collectors, a series on World War One soldiers' uniforms, exhibited at the top of the Arc de triomphe in Paris, and a series on lying stone figures of the Basilica of Saint-Denis, commissioned by the Centre des monuments nationaux. In recent years Schneck has also explored other techniques, and in particular wet plates collodion which he used for a series on flowers and car engines. Since 2020 Antoine has being working on a series of photographies of French artists in their studio, breaking down pictures into a reconstructed landscape and multiplying his subject throughout space.

Committed to defending the copyrights of photographers, since 2018 Schneck is also a board member of France's Société des auteurs dans les arts graphiques et plastiques (ADAGP).

Since 2007 the work of Antoine Schneck has been regularly exhibited by the Berthet-Aittouarès Gallery and at international fairs such as Art Élysées (until 2017), Art Paris and at the BRAFA in Brussels.

Antoine Schneck grew up in Paris. Impressed by his Jewish background and studies, Schneck is the son of Gilbert Schneck, maxillofacial surgeon, and of Hélène Pachet, dental surgeon. His father's family is from Transylvania and Galicia (Eastern Europe); his mother's family is from Lithuania and Bessarabia. Antoine Schneck is the brother Colombe Schneck, a writer, and of Marine Schneck, a graphic designer. Schneck is also the nephew Pierre Pachet, a writer, and the cousin François Pachet, a music scientist and composer, and of Yaël Pachet, a writer. He has a son, Eliot, born in 2005 from his marriage with Céline Fronval, a lawyer. Since 2017, he has been in a relationship with Emmanuelle Moors, a financier.

Thereafter, Schneck began his career as a cameraman for a leading French TV channel. In the early 1990s he switched to photography and started to work as a free lancer for prime interior design magazines. Since 1999, Schneck has been working full-time as a French visual-art photographer, with a predilection for portraits.

Antoine Schneck is a French visual-art photographer born in 1963 in Suresnes, France.