Alexis Cordesse
/ photographer / born in 1971 / french / based in Malakoff, France.
Alexis Cordesse began his photographer's career in 1991, as a reporter, at the age of 20. His pictures were published in the French and foreign press. After these first years of initiation, he went away from the practice of photojournalism. and started using new medias and supports, as the cinema or the installation. He created a new distance and a new duration, without establishing the one or the other one in aesthetic standard. Experimenting different genres as portrait or street photography, its artistic research feeds on a critical reflection on the responsibility of the images and the ethics of the testimony in our contemporary world.
SOLO SHOWS
2012 French culrural centers, Jérusalem-Est, Ramallah, Naplouse, Palestinians Territories (upcoming April - June).
2012 Artothèque de Caen, France (upcoming January).
2011 Galerie Photo 12, Paris, France.
2010 Ecole speciale d'Architecture, Month of Photography, Paris, France.
2007 Rencontres photographiques, artist in residence, Saumur, France.
2006 Atlantic Center of Photography (CAP), Brest, France.
2006 Agora Theater, Evry, France.
2005 Ancienne Poste Gallery, Calais, France.
2005 La Manufacture, Nancy, France.
2005 Theater 71, Malakoff, France.
2004 La Peripherie Gallery, Malakoff, France.
2004 Elsa Triolet Library, Pantin, France.
2003 Nikon Images House Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland.
1994 World day against AIDES, Trocadéro, Paris, France.
1993 World day against AIDES, Saint-Eustache Church, Paris, France.
1992 Festival Visa pour l’image, Perpignan, France.
GROUP SHOWS (selection)
2010 Clichy sans clichés, French Center, Berlin, Germany.
2006 Clichy sans clichés, Espace 93, Clichy-sous-Bois / Paris Town Hall.
2005 Prisonniers de l’image, Centre d’histoire de la résistance et de la déportation, Lyon.
2004 2/15 – The day the world say no to the war, Paul Smith, New York, USA.
2004 Europa the soul of the cities , Septembre de la Photographie, Lyon, France.
2003 Triennial of Photography and Video Strangers, ICP, New York, USA, avec Eyal Sivan.
2002 Dokumenta 11, Kassel, Allemagne, with Eyal Sivan.
BOOKS & CATALOGS
2010 Lucien & Rodolf Hervé Prize, catalog, Vimagie, France.
2006 Clichy sans clichés, Editions Robert Delpire / Acte Sud.
2005 Du Beau Travail!, avec Zoé Varier, Editions Trans Photographic Press.
2004 Europa, l’esprit des villes, catalogue Septembre de la Photographie, Editions Lieux dits, France.
2004 Generation X, World Press Photo Masterclass – First Decade, Gijs Stork Publisher, Hollande.
2003 2/15 – The day the world say no to the war, Editions Hello, New York, USA.
2003 Strangers : The first ICP Triennial of Photography and Video, Editions Steidl, Allemagne.
AWARDS & GRANTS
2011 Arcimboldo Prize.
2010 Shortlisted for the Academy of France in Rome.
2010 Lucien & Rodoph Hervé Prize.
2010 Shortlisted Neuflize-Vie Foundation Award.
2010 Grant of research, National Center for Visual Arts (CNAP), France.
1995 3rd price Observer Hodge Award.
1993 World Press Photo Masterclass.
1992 Agena Prize.