Since the end of the 1990s, Bertrand Meunier has been developing extensive photographic series examining, in a frontal but sensitive manner, the territories in which he immerses himself over the long term.
Since the end of the 1990s, Bertrand Meunier has been developing extensive photographic series examining, in a frontal but sensitive manner, the territories in which he immerses himself over the long term.
Noted for his work on the changes in the peasant worlds ("Peasants Ordinaires") and the Chinese industrial world ("Erased"), he then became interested in Asian megalopolises ("Hub Side Down"), contemporary Pakistan and Chile, while "chronicling" the daily life of French prisons and the life of his own family.
His documentary approach is coupled with narrative accents, served by the poetry of his exclusive use of black and white.
Since 2009, Bertrand Meunier has been traveling his own country, France. Focusing on "peripheral" areas, the ongoing series "I'm from here" is intended as a manifesto for exotic immersion, meticulous fieldwork, and the long-term nature of film photography.
Member of the Tendance Floue collective. Oskar Barnack Prize 2001. International Media Prize 2005. Joseph Kessel Prize 2005. Nièpce Prize 2007.
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