Laurence Elie Badessi, born and educated in France to a family of three generations of photographers, has been photographing since childhood. He holds an undergraduate degree in communication and a Master's Degree in photography from the University of Paris VIII. His thesis, "Ethnological Fashion Photography", won him the 1988 Fuji Color Film "Adventure Grant", enabling him to travel to Niger and produce "Ethnik", a body of  photographs of indigenous peoples in clothes by famous Western designers including Jean-Paul Gauthier, Claude Montana, Thierry Mugler, Yohji Yamamoto, and Paco Rabanne. Badessi, based in New York since  the mid-1990's, continually travels on assignments. His publications include "Skin", (introduction by Sondra Gilman, Editions Stemmle/Abbeville Press, 2000), a monograph of nudes fused with landscape, captioned with commentaries by stellar figures from art, fashion, film, and more. Numerous credits include "Harper's Bazaar, "Vogue", "Elle", "Black and White", "French Photo" and "Photo  Italia". "Photo". His most recent fashion coups include a campaign for Charles Jourdan, Paris, and a stunning portfolio for the exquisite  India based Taj Hotels Resorts and Palaces, for their  2006 calendar, based on a theme of luxury in fashion in the "flat world". Other awards include a grant from the Ministry of Culture for "Metmorphoses" an exhibition at the Espace VEGA/Pierre Cardin, France. His work is in the collection of the Danforth Museum of Art, Masachusetts, the Musees des Art Decoratifs Paris, and numerous private collections.
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In the 6^th issue of ANTILIPSEIS magazine he participates with photos