Christophe Agou

Christophe Agou (born 14 October 1969 in Montbrison ) is a French photographer.

Biography

Since the 1990s, Christophe Agou published his sensitive and poetic documentary photographs. With effortless ease, he alternates between black and white and color, landscape and portrait, reportage and documentation. Here, Agou sets to any particular style. Rather, he sets up the forms and spaces always out on his own point of view. Meanwhile Agou also has other media, such as the assemblage and the film opened up for himself, which he always stays true to its intuitive operation.

Christophe Agou was born in 1969 in the French Montbrison. His love for photography was discovered by self-taught on various trips through Europe and the United States. In 1992 he settled in New York. In 1998 he began his work on the series of photos about people in the New York subway, the results under the title Life Below ( Quantuck Lane / WW Norton & Co. 2004) were published in 1998.

In the winter of 2002 Agou returned to his home region, the Forez, back and toured the regions far away from the cities that had always been familiar to him. He learned the people in the country know and evolved from his regular visits friendships. He began his photo series Face au Silence ( Faces of Silence).

In 2006, he was among the finalists of the W. Eugene Smith Award in 2008 and a finalist for the Prix de la Photographie Paris Académie des Beaux -Arts. A year later he was awarded the Special Jury Prize at the Prix de la Critique Kodak Photographic space. Winners of the European Publishers Award for Photography 2010.

The work of Christophe Agou have been widely published and exhibited internationally, including the MoMA (New York), the Museum of Fine Arts ( Houston ), at the Jeu de Paume (Paris), the Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró (Mallorca), on the photography festival Les Rencontres Internationales d' Arles (France), at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (Washington DC), on the Noorderlicht Festival (Netherlands) and on various photo festivals in China.

Photo series

  • Inside Out (1995 )
  • Life Below (1998 - 2001)
  • Je est un autre (1996 )
  • Under a cloud (2001-2004)
  • Reveries
  • Face au silence / ( Faces of Silence) (2002-2010)
  • Looking for words
  • Reel fiction ( since 2009)

Collections (selection)

  • Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris France
  • Musée d' Art Roger Quilliot ( MARQ ), Clermont- Ferrand, France
  • Museum of Fine Arts, Houston USA
  • Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase USA
  • Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. USA
  • The Akron Art Museum Akron, USA
  • Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona USA
  • New York Public Library, New York USA
  • The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie USA
  • New -York Historical Society, New York USA
  • Galeries Photo- Fnac, Paris France
  • The Joy of Giving Something, New York USA

Awards

  • 2013: Centre du cinéma et de l'image nationally animée - Bourse
  • 2012: Centre National du Cinéma et de l' Image Animée - Bourse
  • 2010: European Publishers Award for Photography - Lauréat
  • 2009: Prix de la Critique Kodak Photographic space - Mention Spéciale
  • 2008: Prix de la Photographie de l' Académie des Beaux- Arts de Paris
  • 2006: W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography
  • 2002: Ai- AP American Photography Award
  • 2002: Magazine Picture of the Year - Honorable Mention
  • 2000: Project Competition - Santa Fe Prize for Photography
  • 1999: Attention Talent Photo Award Fnac
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