Ronan Guillou
Catching places, cities, glances: Ronan Guillou translates his pleasure and desire for keeping traces of them during his walks. Cities, and the people who animate them, are the basis of his humanistic approach. Aside from his commercial campaigns, Guillou's personal work records moments of ordinary life, where men and women are photographed during their daily routines in urban landscapes. Initially influenced by cinematic environments and the aesthetics of American cities, his work also extends to cities in Asia, Europe and South America. Without criticism, Guillou feels affection and empathy for his characters, giving the images a pictorialist and poetic depth.
Ronan Guillou received first prize in 2007 for his series "Passage," presented at the Museum of Decorative Arts of Paris (France), and was nominated in January 2008 for the Fondation HSBC pour la Photographie.
After this first solo exhibition in New York of his current series, entitled, "In Between," Guillou will show large-scale photographs of his urban landscapes in an outdoor exhibition at I'lle aux Moines, in Brittany, France, in 2009.
Ronan Guillou continues to work on his new series, based on his travels to Japan and South America.