Anne Lefebvre was born in 1963 in Boulogne- Billancourt, a town on the outskirts of Paris where Russians who fled the October Revolution settled in 1917. Unable to pronounce the French word, they renamed the town: “Billankoursk,” and the name stuck like tales from an era that Anne sometimes talks about as if she experienced it. She began taking photographs in the early 1980s, with the belief that the energy conveyed in the prints should always be more important than the subjects in the works. She spent most
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