Stéphane Loeber-Bottero

Since his beginnings in photography, first as an analog and then as a digital artist, Stéphane Loeber-Bottero has paid particular attention to architecture and the ephemeral and mysterious nature of light, especially at night. His artistic vision and photographic approach matured during his many travels and after a stay of more than two years in the United States.

Thanks to the advice of French artists, and after fifteen years of deepening and accumulation of photographs, he decided in 2001 to share his work with the public.

From 1988, Venice had become a city and a favorite subject for his photographic activity where he stayed very frequently. Since then, Stéphane Loeber-Bottero has made several series of photographs in Venice that represent it at night in its forms as much spiritual as natural. Major exhibitions took place in France between 2001 and 2005, with a first series entitled "Venise-Nocturnes" at the prestigious Bernheim-Jeune gallery in Paris.

In parallel and since 1999, Stéphane Loeber-Bottero produces black and white series devoted to portraits and the human body.

Since 2001, he has also developed series inspired by California, Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Montreal, and European cities with varied themes and where night visions retain a share of choice.

Inspired by what he has retained from the history of art to the most recent artistic movements, he confronts since 2020 past and present, in the form of diptychs, where poetry and sensuality often dialogue.

Convinced of the parameters necessary for the development of a painted work or of an image, he exploits this form of rigor in the fields of architecture and design by inviting an analysis of details, their symbol and their resonance.

Stéphane Loeber-Bottero has published two books about Venice, Italy:

First, “Venise, la nuit / Night in Venice” (bilingual French/English edition, with 170 photographs) at Editions Gourcuff Gradenigo, in 2009-2010; for more than twelve years, Stéphane Loeber-Bottero has traversed every centimeter of the labyrinths of the Serenissima to build and propose a very personal vision of Venice, both poetic and extraordinary. His photographs, all taken at night, give the city a very original atmosphere, barely disturbed by the presence of people. His nocturnal series offer a new insight into the different districts of the city, noble or popular, sumptuous or modest, sacred or profane. The observer of his photographs is gradually captured by the mystery of Venice, seen from a different angle that will make him change his mind about everything he thought he knew about this city so famous and unique.

Then, “Venise, nocturnes”, thematic anthology, poetic and literary, by Artlys / RMN in 2012.

His reports and the testimonies he collected contributed to the development of his activity as an author of poetry and short stories. From 2025, he successively published three collections of free poetry, selected from twenty years devoted to writing: «Clair-Obscur / Chiaroscuro – Forgotten poems / Rediscovered poems» (edition in three languages: French, English, Italian); «Tourments de l'âme et du cœur – Poèmes enfouis / Poèmes resurgis» (edition in French); «Sneakers Mâles», imposed variation on the theme of sneakers in the male universe (edition in French exclusively).