Regis Lesieur
Régis Lesieur, a French photographer born on August 23, 1968, in Paris, turned his childhood passion into a career in 1999, specializing in aerial landscape photography. In search of new ways to see the world differently, he began with helicopters before switching to drones in 2011, a technology that offers him complete freedom of framing. This approach has earned him international recognition with 65 awards for his photographs and videos. His use of drones pushes the boundaries of the medium, both for panoramic views and close-ups from just 50 centimeters above the ground, revealing new perspectives and unexpected details of the Mauritian landscape.
In 2013, Régis moved to Mauritius, where he began an in-depth documentation project of the island. Over the course of ten years, he took 273,000 photographs using a drone, covering more than 8,000 kilometers in the air during approximately 6,000 flights. Navigating from site to site, he explored every corner of the island, revealing compositions where turquoise lagoons, volcanic reliefs, cane fields, and coastal villages paint pictures of striking beauty. His video "Mauritius from the sky 2015" won several international awards and in 2016 became the official video of Mauritius, demonstrating his ability to capture the essence of a territory in all its geographical and chromatic diversity.
His work is not limited to documentation: he transforms our view of familiar places by presenting them from angles that are impossible to see with the naked eye. Each series presented, composed of three separate photographs taken a few minutes apart and printed on glossy Chromaluxe, offers a temporal reading of the landscape, capturing subtle variations in light and color. These triptychs invite contemplation, where repetition creates difference and the ordinary reveals its hidden beauty. In Régis Lesieur's work, aerial photography becomes a patient and meticulous exploration of the fragile and changing beauty of Mauritius seen from above.
The works of Régis Lesieur
