Biography

Gautier Deblonde grew up in France and came to London to work as a photographer. A collection of his portraits of artists was published as Artists (Tate, 1999). He also photographed the creation and installation into the Millennium Dome of Ron Mueck‘s Sculpture “Boy”. This series won a World Press award and was published (Boy, Anthony D’Offay Gallery, 2001) to accompany Mueck‘s exhibition at the 2001 Venice Biennale. In 2002 his photographs of the making of Lynn Ramsay’s film Morvern Callar were published as Morvern Callar (Screenpress, 2002). His photographs have been exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery (1999), Tate Britain (2001), The Tom Blau Gallery and Focus Gallery, London (2002) and La Chambre Claire, Paris (2003, 2004), Natural History Museum, 2007, London, Maison de la Photographie 2007, French Institut of Warsaw and la Galerie du Jour in Paris in 2008.

He is currently finishing two projects, “True North” a journey in Svalbard in the High Arctic and a series of portrait of artists’ studios. Both projects will be published in 2009.

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