Biographie
Trained as a photographer and architect, his work focuses primarily on the city, its plasticity, its changes, its traces, its voids, and the human behaviour it induces.
In 2006, his first work on Chinese cities was exhibited at the Rencontres Internationales de la photographie d'Arles under the artistic direction of Raymond Depardon. He was a member of the Picturetank cooperative agency, which he joined in 2007, until its closure in 2017.
In 2010, with the France14 group, he exhibited "Voyage en périphérie", a work on the landscapes of mass housing in the Île-de-France region.
He then developed his 4x5 camera work, which enabled him to take a slow look at urban developments in Asia and France, as well as an artistic style combining drawing, engraving and photography.
From 2011 onwards, his research will also focus on the place of plants in the urban landscape, as well as the rural landscape. The result is "Le voyage d'Alberstein" (Alberstein's journey), a collaborative work that attempts to bring together different questions about human beings, their natural, planned or relational environment, and the temporal framework in which they evolve.
In 2017 he produced a work on the world's largest metropolis, Chongqing, in China. Winner of the HSBC prize, this work will be published in the form of a book: "Chongqing, sur les quatre rives du temps qui passe", Editions Xavier Barral, 2021.
His work is exhibited and published in France and abroad.
Présentation
Municipality of Chongqing, People's Republic of China, population 34 million.
One of the world's fastest-growing demographics and economies.
The central agglomeration of 15 million souls is infused with almost 300,000 new arrivals every year.
Chongqing, the "Mountain City", criss-crossed by the Yangtze and Jialing rivers, struggles to pierce the thick fog that covers it all year round.
Heir to the people displaced by the Three Gorges Dam and daughter of the Beijing authorities who elevated it to the status of a municipality on a par with its big sisters on the east coast, Chongqing has developed at dizzying speed. Urban forms and infrastructures have sprung up in defiance of gravity, following the contours of its four steep banks carved by its rivers. The speed of urbanisation has overtaken the slow pace of fishermen, the erosion of rivers and the powerful blossoming of mountains.