Alexandre Dupeyron (b.1983) is a French-German artist whose photographic work explores the thresholds between image and matter, presence and disappearance. Initially trained as a photojournalist in Paris, Dupeyron spent several years living abroad — in Morocco, Singapore, and India — absorbing the textures of distant cities and the echoes of their forgotten spaces. But his trajectory soon shifted from reporting to something more elusive: a practice shaped by reverie, accident, and the slow erosion of appearances.
Dupeyron doesn’t seek to document the world as it is, but to reveal its fragility — what flickers at the edges of perception. He moves between the visible and the imagined, working with historical processes like gum bichromate printing, not out of nostalgia, but as a way to probe the physicality of the image. Light, blur, texture, and silence become materials in their own right.
His series unfold as open narratives: from the dehumanised landscapes of Runners of the Future and De Anima, to the ecological and mythological resonances of L’étale des saisons, Mondes Oubliés, Hapax, and Pinus Pinaster. His latest project, Ashes of the Future, began in the aftermath of the devastating bushfires in Australia (2019–2020), continued through the scorched forests of southwestern France in the summer of 2022, and concluded in the United States with the support of the U.S. Forest Service and scientists from the Fire Lab. The series doesn’t just depict fire — it questions it, as a symbol, a force, and a warning. At once elemental and political, fire becomes the stage on which our fragile entanglement with the Earth plays out.
In parallel, Dupeyron has developed a transdisciplinary practice that connects photography with sound and performance. In 2022, he published his first monograph, Dysnomia (Sun/Sun), which became the foundation for Dysnomia Live — a one-hour performative piece in which Alexandre constructs a visual narrative in real time, drawing from the depth of his photographic archives. On stage, his images unfold in a dramaturgical arc, responding to and dialoguing with original music composed and performed by Thomas Julienne and the quintet Theorem of Joy. The piece toured Southeast Asia in 2023 and China in 2024 (Beijing, Nanjing, Shanghai), with the support of the Institut français – Export program.
Whether working in print, performance, or sculpture — as in Janus, created in 2025 for the collective project 600° — Alexandre Dupeyron seeks not to fix the world in place, but to activate it. His images do not resolve; they resonate.
He currently lives and works between Bordeaux and Berlin, and is a founding member of the collective LesAssociés.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS – SELECTION
2024 Galerie du Jour – agnès-b, Salon Approche, Paris – France
2023 Galerie Arrêt sur l’Image, Bordeaux – France
2022 Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation, Fotohaus 2022, Arles – France
2022 Bernard Magrez Foundation, Bordeaux – France
2021 Photo Hanoi ’21, Vincom Center for Contemporary Art, Hanoi – Vietnam
2020 Promenades Photographiques, Vendôme – France
2018 Laureate, Maison Blanche Prize, Marseille – France
2018 ACUD MACHT NEU, Berlin – Germany
2018 Green Hill Gallery, Berlin – Germany
2017 Nuits Noires Photographiques, Bordeaux – France
2016 Kolga Tbilisi Photo Festival, Tbilisi – Georgia
2013 Itinéraire des Photographes Voyageurs, Bordeaux – France
2013 LAB Galerie Artyfact, Paris – France
2013 Manifesto Festival, Toulouse – France
2012 Agora Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, Bordeaux – France
2010 Vue Privée Gallery – Singapore
2007 The World Centre for Peace, Verdun – France
2006 The European Council, Strasbourg – France
GROUP EXHIBITIONS – SELECTION
2024 Écomusée de Marquèze, Sabres – France
2024 Espace Saint-Rémi, Bordeaux – France
2022 Centre for Contemporary Photographic Art Villa Pérochon – France
2020 Galerie Le Domaine Perdu, Meyrals – France
2019 Villa FOTOHAUS | PARISBERLIN, Arles Voies Off, Arles – France
2019 Galerie Arrêt sur l’Image, Bordeaux – France
2019 Under the Underground, Galerie Franzkowiak, Berlin – Germany
2018 Monat der Fotografie OFF, Berlin – Germany
2018 Photoszene, Cologne – Germany
2017 Arles Voies Off, Arles – France
2016 Photoszene, Cologne – Germany
2014 India Art Fair, New Delhi – India
2010 Art Fair – Singapore
PUBLICATIONS
2025 600° – published by corps 14 editions, with texts by Christine Bouisset, Élise Boutié, Erwan Desplanques, Arthur Guérin-Turcq, Danièle Méaux, Thibaut Téranian
2022 Dysnomia (monograph) – published by Sun/Sun Editions, afterword
by François Cheval
2021 Itinéraires – published by LOCO Editions, with texts by Sébastien Berlendis and Fabien Ribery
2020 D’ici, ça ne paraît pas si loin – published by Le Bec en l’Air Editions, preface by Luc Gwiazdzinski
2018 Femmes, qui êtes-vous ? – exhibition catalogue, edited by Christel Boget
2018 Self-Reflection – exhibition catalogue, edited by curators Janine Koppelmann (Galerie Koppelmann) and Teona Gogichaishvili, Kolga Tbilisi Photo Festival
2015 Off the Wall Culture Photo – book-magazine, edited by Koffi Anna-Alix
PERFORMANCES
2024 Temple DJY, Beijing – China
2024 Fotografiska, Shanghai – China
2024 FRAC – MECA Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Bordeaux – France
2023 Pho Bên Dôi, Da Lat – Vietnam
2023 Jazz Fest Vientiane featuring Fanglao Dance Company, Vientiane – Laos
2023 Rocher de Palmer, Bordeaux – France
2022 Les Nuits Photo, Paris – France
2022 Festival Constellation, Paris – France
2022 Institut Bernard Magrez, Bordeaux – France
2017 Arles Voies Off, Arles – France
REPRESENTING GALLERIES
Galerie du Jour Agnès-B. , Paris - France
Arrêt sur l’image Galerie, Bordeaux - France
Galerie Franzkowiak, Berlin - Germany