After graduating in Modern Literature and Communication, Olivier Ramonteu was a literature teacher, then the communication assistant for the Museum of Fine Arts in Lyon and finally head of communications for the Lawyer Bar Association in Lyon.
In 2013, he decided to get his photographic activity in the foreground becoming purely professional photographer. His photographic work is divided therefore between his own work and commissioned works.
His universe subtly blends elements of reality and dream-like atmospheres in which often slip dissonant elements The aesthetic that he develops takes place in an unstable equilibrium at the borders of reality, dream and nightmare. The fantasy genre is never far away, which introduces doubt in the viewer's eye to the point of questioning the reality of what he looks. His sources of inspiration can be found in literature (Maupassant, Poe, Dostoevsky, Mallarmé), movies (Tim Burton), painting (Gustave Moreau) , mythology, religion, and of course, photography (Tim Walker, Brooke Shaden, Zemotion, etc).
He also works on commissions for visual artists, actors, musicians for whom he creates visual universes in line with their own creations.
