L’Œil des Cyclopes
Photography & Visual Production
Provence & French Riviera
A considered eye for what makes you distinct
For fifteen years, L’Œil des Cyclopes has worked alongside companies, institutions and cultural organisations on their photography, guided by one principle: understand before you show, observe before you compose.
I’m Laurent Parienti, a reportage photographer whose eye was shaped by ethnographic and documentary assignments. I founded L’Œil des Cyclopes to bring that sensibility to visual communication: corporate reportage, portraiture, architecture, hospitality, exhibitions, festivals and cultural events.
From the Fondation Carmignac to the British Museum, from the Porquerolles Film Festival to Provence Méditerranée, each commission brings documentary rigour together with a distinctive visual voice.
Photography begins where the eye truly comes to rest: a place, a presence, an unspoken tension. That is where I work, at the moment an image stops illustrating and starts to tell a story. Far from the set conventions of corporate imagery, I stand for an authored, committed and human way of photographing organisations.
Between documentary and art, observation meets emotion, and aesthetics serve the story.
Photography & Visual Production in Provence & the French Riviera
Companies, institutions, artists and cultural organisations, in Toulon, Marseille, Nice or anywhere in the South of France: I bring an author’s eye to your image. My personal work is at laurentparienti.com.
Corporate reportage
Immersing myself in your business to reveal your expertise and your environment, with a documentary eye that stays close to reality.
Portraiture
Executives, teams, artists, craftspeople: portraits in natural light, built on listening, that bring out personality and presence.
Tourism and place
For tourism boards, local authorities and foundations, images that convey the identity of a place and what it has to offer.
Architecture, hospitality, wine estates
A sensitive approach to architecture, attentive to light, line and landscape. For luxury hotels, architecture and interiors meet scenes of everyday life. And luxury real estate too.
Museums, foundations, exhibitions
Reportage that combines artistic sensibility with the precision of architectural photography.
Art and cultural events
Festivals, concerts, professional events: the energy, the highlights, the decisive moments.
Video and drone
When a project calls for it, film and aerial drone photography, produced with specialist collaborators.
A photographer rooted in Provence
L’Œil des Cyclopes is based in Le Pin de Galle, a small fishermen’s cove just outside Toulon, between Marseille and Saint-Tropez. I work throughout the Var (Toulon, Hyères, Bandol, Sanary, Saint-Tropez and the hinterland) as well as in Marseille, Aix-en-Provence, Nice, Cannes and well beyond.
Knowing this region intimately, its light, its rhythms and its contrasts, is what gives each project its precision.
Clients and collaborations
From Provence Méditerranée to the Fondation Carmignac, from Vinci Energies to the Porquerolles Film Festival, my work spans very different worlds with a consistent signature.
Selected clients:
- Provence Méditerranée: photographer for the metropolitan tourism board
- Fondation Carmignac: contemporary art and architecture on Porquerolles
- British Museum: ethnographic assignments with the Moken in Thailand and Myanmar
- Cannes Film Festival: photographic coverage for Cannes Soundtrack
- Porquerolles Film Festival: official photographer
- Degreane Vinci: corporate reportage and communication
Institutional or cultural, corporate or creative: the same attention, the same eye.
Why L’Œil des Cyclopes
An author’s eye
I am first and foremost an author photographer, and I give every project an artistic and documentary depth that goes beyond illustration.
A direct relationship
A single point of contact: you work with me directly, from the first idea to the final images. I understand what is at stake for you, and I respond quickly.
Deep local knowledge
Based in the Var for more than fifteen years, I know its light, its places and its business community.
An immersive approach
Every project is an immersion: people, gestures, faces, atmospheres. Substance before setting, reality before the pose.
Have a project in mind?
Whether you’re planning a photography commission, a film or a visual production in Provence, on the French Riviera or further afield, let’s talk about your project.