ALEXANDRE GUIRKINGER
[ROSE]

   

M LE MONDE, LEBANON

 

Born in 1980, Alexandre Guirkinger is a french photographer who developed a photographic language that runs the gamut from landscapes to portraits, still lifes and archival images.

 

M LE MONDE, ACCESSORIES

 

M LE MONDE,  BEIRUT

 

M LE MONDE, CELINE SCIAMMA

 

M LE MONDE, CRAIG MCDEAN

 

OUARZAZATE DREAM

 

At the age of 23 and after graduating in Political Science, Alexandre fell into photography when travelling through Central Asia.
“It was more the appetite for life than the medium itself that led me to photography. This way of being in the world, as an observer-poet, on the sidelines.”  

 

MONOCLE MOROCCO

 

DIE ZEIT MAGAZIN , BATACLAN

 

M LE MONDE, CELINE SCIAMMA

 

I/E ABU DABHI

 

CLOAKROOM MAGAZINE #1, OCT. 19

 

Intuition is his key word: we walk, we take pictures and we conceptualize afterwards.
Working exclusively with film, this “storyteller” also believes in the miraculous chance, the attention paid to printing, and above all, the confrontation of an image with others.

 

ISTANBUL

 

M LE MONDE

 

PLEASURE GARDEN, ALAIN PASSARD

 

PLEASURE GARDEN, ALAIN PASSARD

 

 

Besides the great documentary filmmakers like Walker Evans, his references are conceptual photographers such as Jeff Wall , Wolfgang Tillmans or Jean-Luc Moulène and his notion of “disjunction”- taking out a fraction of a continuous time.

 

CAPE TOWN

 

STONE

 

WITH NOE SOULIER

 

TOWNSHIP

 

DAPPER DAN, CAPE TOWN

   

CLOAKROOM MAGAZINE, OSKAR METSAVAHT

   

He collaborates regularly with M Le Monde, Die Zeit Magazine, Wallstreet Journal Magazine, AD Magazine...
In parallel, he works on personal projects that have been likened to conceptual documentaries.

 

M LE MONDE, OSCAR NIEMEYER IN TRIPOLI

 

AD MAGAZINE, MARCEL BREUER IN NORMANDY

 

THE MOON OF TRIPOLI

 

M LE MONDE,  THE STORY OF THE DUMOULIN FAMILY

 

MOUNTAINS STUDY, LOS ANDES

 

In 2015, he completed his long-term Maginot Line project. For eight years, he travelled most of the border’s length  focusing on the surface, the visible traces.
LA LIGNE has been exhibited at Les Rencontres photographiques d'Arles in 2016.

This work has also been published by RVB Books.

 






 


















 

The GERALD THOMASSIN project takes its cue from an investigation report included in the legal case file of the actor, wrongly accused of murder in 2013 and imprisoned for three years.
THOMASSIN has been published by RVB Books in 2014 and exhibited at RVB Gallery.

 





























 

LOST ISLAND is an ongoing project in the Limousin hills, where young men from Sudan, Syria, Iraq or Afghanistan are staying while waiting to see if their asylum application is accepted. The days are lost in an endless wait. Between discussion and contemplation. Between football games and television screens spitting out a language they do not understand.

 







































     

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