Gilles Coulon's work has three ages.
Between 1990 and 2002, he drew on Africa - and Mali in particular - for the subjects of several years of reporting.
Gilles Coulon's work has three ages.
Between 1990 and 2002, he drew on Africa - and Mali in particular - for the subjects of several years of reporting.
From the 2000s onwards, he moved away from the documentary form and set out in search of a new poetic. He published White Night (Editions Steidl), a work on neon lights that resembles a nocturnal stroll in search of a universal and suggestive light.
Gilles Coulon then takes the path of another composition. Definitively discarding the singular "beautiful image," he seeks, through the development of series, to construct a questioning, to allow the spectator a less naive reading of what he is given to see.
With Outrenuit, a project currently in production, Gilles Coulon returns to explore Africa in an attempt to represent Darkness, its material, its rhythm.
Member of the Tendance Floue Collective. Winner of the Eurazeo Grand Prix in 2018. Winner of the CNAP in 2017. 1st prize World Press Photo in 1997.
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