About Francois de Melogue

Francois de Melogue is an American fine art photographer based in Saint Albans, Vermont. His work documents the rural Northeast in a 2:3 frame: weathered Vermont barns, covered bridges in New Hampshire, the coast of Maine, and the slow turn of fall foliage and mud season across the small towns of New England.

The photographs are made on location and printed by hand in his Vermont studio on archival paper with pigment inks rated for over a hundred years of color stability. Each piece is signed and numbered with a certificate of authenticity. The smallest, a 25 by 17 inch print, is a limited edition of 50. The mid size, 42 by 28 inches, is a limited edition of 25. The largest, 60 by 40 inches, is a limited edition of 10.

Before photography, he spent thirty years cooking in farm-to-table kitchens. He picked up his first camera, a Canon AE-1, at twelve, but the kitchen years trained him to read light, ingredients, and the quiet details that turn an ordinary scene into one worth keeping. That training drives the work.

His core series include Weathered, on the Vermont family farms slowly disappearing from the landscape; New England Landscapes, on bridges, lakes, and village streets; and France, Remembered, on the lavender fields, morning markets, and village corners of his years in Provence.

His work is held in private collections across the United States and Europe. A traveling exhibition is currently on view at The University of Vermont Medical Center and Burlington City Hall in Vermont, and his photographs were recently included in the 35th Annual Green Mountain Photography Show. He is represented in Vermont by Artisan's Gallery in Waitsfield, ArtHound in Essex, Artists in Residence in Saint Albans, The Emile Gruppe Gallery in Jericho, and Remarkable Things in Stowe.