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Hughes Dubois
Born
Hughes Dubois
6 May 1957
Tournai (Belgium)
Nationality
Belgian
Education
Ecole supérieure des arts Saint-Luc (Belgium)
Notable work
Borobudur under the full moon
Style
Photographer
Awards
International Book Art Tribal Price, 2014; Best photography MGA Book Award, 2014
His “photographic gaze”, in the words of Danièle Gillemon, produced by a combination of staging and lighting of objects, has influenced the form of photography in many museums, institutions, art galleries and private collections[1].
Parallel to his career in artwork photography, Hughes Dubois has developed his own artistic practice, with works appearing in galleries and art books. Over his career spanning 40 years, his ongoing goal has been to demonstrate the great sensitivity of both tribal and classical arts[2].
Biography
Hughes Dubois took up photography at the age of twelve, taking photographs of landscapes and strangers in the street. He began his artistic training at the Écoles Supérieures des Arts Saint-Luc (Mons, Belgium) then embarked on architectural studies at the École Saint-Luc (Brussels, Belgium), before switching to study photography in Ath (Belgium).
In 1977, Hughes Dubois started his professional career as an advertising photographer at the Studio Asselberghs (Belgium). In 1978, he developed a passion for photographing art after seeing his first Hemba statuette.
Photography of artworks
In 1982, he set off on a voyage across the Americas with Émile Deletaille to produce several publications on pre-Columbian arts3. In 1984, he met Michel Leveau, founder of the Musée Dapper in Paris, for whom he has produced thirty plus publications on African tribal arts.
In 1999, he was contacted by Jacques Kerchache in relation to his project to create the Musée du Quai Branly. Dubois photographed the works presented in the Pavillon des Sessions as an initiative to bring the tribal arts back to the Louvre. «Sculptures» would be the first work to be published by the Musée du Quai Branly, followed by others. In 2003, Dubois set up, in collaboration with Tibet specialist Amy Heller, an iconographic collection of the arts of the peoples of Himalaya for the Art Institute of Chicago. This project would lead to the publication of the book Himalayas – An Aesthetic Adventure.
In 2012, he worked for the Museum of Islamic Art, Doha, taking photographs for a book presenting the Doha masterpieces at the Musée du Louvre as part of the From Cordova to Samarkand exhibition. In 2013, for the opening of the Department of Islamic Art at the Musée du Louvre, Lebanese artist Walid Raad's exhibition featured works produced from photographs of Islamic artworks taken by Hughes Dubois. On this occasion, the Louvre Museum and the artist published Préface à la troisième édition.
In 2004, the exhibition Le Sensible et La Force was held at the AfricaMuseum - Royal Museum for Central Africa (Brussels, Belgium) and an eponymous portfolio of 24 silver prints was published in a 12-copy edition. This body of work consisted in «extracting the portraits» of statues by showing their sensitivity and humanity, in order to underline their power and beauty.
From 2013 to 2017, Dubois worked on Borobudur Under the Full Moon, a photographic project undertaken with his wife Caroline Leloup Dubois, which took three years — and over 110 nights — to shoot the world's biggest buddhist temple, Borobudur (Indonesia). Since 2018, Borobudur Under the Full Moon has toured as a travelling exhibition under the patronage of UNESCO. A limited edition of 9 copies of an eponymous portfolio in platinum palladium and an art book were published on this occasion.
Awards and recognition
In 2014, the Bismarck Archipelago Art catalogue was awarded the International Tribal Art Book Prize – the ICMA Award and the Best Photography Prize of the MGA Book Award.
Exhibitions
Since 1982, Hughes Dubois’ work has been shown in personal and group exhibitions.
Personal exhibitions
1981: Voyage - Maison culturelle de la Tour Burbant, Ath, Belgium
1982: Ath, ses gens, son cortège - Maison culturelle de la Tour Burbant, Ath, Belgium
1986: Ouverture sur les arts africains - Musée Dapper, Paris
Anne Leurquin; Jan Debbaut; Herman Burssens; Elze Bruyninx; Marie-Louise Bastin; Joseph Cornet (1988). Utotombo L'Art d'Afrique noire dans les collections privées belges. Bruxelles: Société des expositions du Palais des Beaux arts. p. 337..
Valérie Beau; Laurence Husson; Christiane Flagayrettes; Phyllis M. Martin; Adams Jones (1989). Objets interdits. Paris: Musée Fondation Dapper. p. 375. ISBN9782906067097..
Le chameau chinois du Musée Guimet. Paris: Musée Guimet. 2001. p. 59..
Pratapaditya Pal; Amy Heller (2003). Himalayas – An Aesthetic Adventure, Pratapaditya Pal, Amy Heller, 2003, Art Institue of Chicago, Chicago. Chicago: Art Institue of Chicago. p. 312. ISBN978-0520239005..
Évelyne Lepage (2013). Formes & façons dans le patrimoine du val de Bagnes (in French and English). Milan: Éditions 5 Continents. p. 141. ISBN9788874395460..
Kevin Conru; Klaus-Jochen Krüger; Ingrid Heermann; Bart Van Bussel; Hughes Dubois (2013). L'art de l'archipel Bismark. Milan: Éditions 5 Continents. p. 327. ISBN9788874396443..
Georges Meurant (Été 2000). "Arts Premiers au Louvre Hughes Dubois a saisi les Arts premiers au Louvre De l'énergie sous l'objectif". Tribal Art Magazine (23). {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)[5].
Séphora Thomas (printemps/été 2004). "Le sensible et la force". Art Tribal (en français) (5): 60-73. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |date= (help).
Philippe Bourgoin (printemps/été 2004). "La redoutable statuaire Songye d'Afrique centrale". Art Tribal (en français) (5): 74-85. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |date= (help).
Danièle Gillemon (5 May 2004). "La sculpture songye et son double Dialogue intense entre la statuaire réelle et les photographies en noir et blanc d'Hughes Dubois". Le Soir.[2].
Anne-Marie Bouttiaux (Summer 2004). "Sensitivity and Power: A Photographic Homage to Songye Sculptors". Tribal Art (35): 64-69..
Raoul Lehuard (été 2004). "Le sensible et la force : photographies de Hughes Dubois et sculptures Songye". Arts d'Afrique noire, arts premiers: 49-52. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |date= (help).
Guy Duplat (11 December 2005.). "Thierry Bouts et ses mystères". La libre Belgique. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)[6].
J.F. (2006). "Les Arts premiers vu par Hughes Dubois". Connaissances des Arts (septembre)..
Roger Pierre Turine (19 September 2006). "Kaos, un Parcours des Mondes". La libre Belgique.[7].
Roger Pierre Turine (30 January 2009). "Bas le masque, vive le portrait !". La libre Belgique.[8].
Elena Martinez-Jacquet (Été 2014). "Rencontre avec un créateur d'images: Hughes Dubois ou un regard photographique". Tribal Art Magazine (72). {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)[1].
Françoise Dargent (17 December 2018). "Under the Full Moon: cent dix clairs de lune à Borobudur". Le Figaro.[9].
Irène Languin (15 May 2018). "Plongée en images dans la majesté de Borobudur". La Tribune de Genève.[10].
Émilie Quitemelle (2019). "Caroline et Hughes Dubois - Borobudur Under The Full Moon". Profession Photographe, rubrique Livres (avril)..
Adenike Cosgrove (29 November 2019). "Photographing African Art Like A Pro - An Interview with Hughes Dubois". site IMO DARA.[11].
^Le mag du MNAAG. Paris: Musée Guimet. mai-août 2018. p. 6. Retrieved 9 February 2022. {{cite book}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); More than one of |pages= and |page= specified (help)
^Guy Duplat (11 décembre 2005). "Thierry Bouts et ses mystères". La Libre Belgique. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); More than one of |website= and |periodical= specified (help)
^Françoise Dargent (17 December 2018). "Under the Full Moon: cent dix clairs de lune à Borobudur". Le Figaro. Sur l'île de Java, Caroline et Hughes Dubois ont photographié de nuit les bas-reliefs du site bouddhique. Ils n'étaient pas au bout de leurs surprises.
