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Christophe Guye Galerie

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Christophe Guye Galerie

Christophe Guye Galerie is one of the leading galleries for contemporary fine art photography

First and foremost conceptual artists that chose to express their artistic vision through the use of the photography- or film camera, or light sensitive materials, these young, emerging talents, mid-career and established artists notably contribute to the art historical discourse and the development within the photographic practice and contemporary art at large.

29/05/2026

Nick Knight
Rose I, 2012
From the series Dripping Roses

In Dripping Roses, Nick Knight revisits the grand tradition of the floral still life and subjects it to controlled collapse. The bouquet, rendered with luminous precision, begins to liquefy; colour drips, form destabilises, surface becomes event.

The gesture is deliberate. Beauty is not denied, but unsettled. Knight exposes the artificiality of perfection and allows elegance and erosion to coexist within the same frame. The image hovers between painting and photography, between seduction and rupture — a hallmark of his practice.

Hand-coated pigment print
Sheet 117,4 x 76,2 cm (46 1/4 x 30 in.)
Edition of 9, plus 2 AP

26/05/2026

Stephen Gill
Untitled, from the series Hackney Flowers, 2005/2007

Hackney Flowers is widely regarded as Stephen Gill’s most important body of work. Produced in East London, where he lived and worked for many years, the series marks a decisive shift in his practice. Gill does not simply photograph his surroundings — he incorporates them physically into the image.

By embedding flowers, stems and debris collected in Hackney directly into the photographic process, he collapses the distance between subject and medium. The works become hybrids: part document, part relic. The city is materially present within the print itself.

This body of work established Gill internationally as one of the most innovative voices in contemporary photography. What appears fragile and poetic is conceptually rigorous — a fundamental expansion of what photography can be.

Hand print on C-type paper
60.7 x 50.8 cm (23 7/8 x 20 in.)
Edition of 10, plus 2 AP

Various works available.
Please contact us for further details.

22/05/2026

Daido Moriyama
Misawa, 1971

Few images define postwar Japanese photography as decisively as this one. Shot in 1971, Misawa embodies Moriyama’s radical departure from conventional composition and technical perfection. The grain, the contrast, the immediacy — everything resists polish. What remains is raw presence.

The stray dog, alert and untamed, became an icon of Moriyama’s visual language: instinctive, restless, uncompromising. It is not a portrait of an animal, but a psychological emblem of an era.

Silver gelatin print, later print
Various formats

18/05/2026

Yoshinori Mizutani
HDR_nature

In these works, Yoshinori Mizutani deliberately pushes High Dynamic Range imaging beyond its corrective promise. By allowing multiple exposures to collide, light, colour and texture dissolve into layered structures that hover between recognition and abstraction. Nature appears transformed, unstable and in constant flux.

Rather than optimising reality, HDR_nature exposes its fragility — proposing photography not as documentation, but as a generative process in which perception and technology intersect.

Still on view online as part of our online exhibition HDR_nature.
Link in bio.

17/05/2026

Jun Ahn (*1981, South Korea)
The Premise

An iceberg was once part of the land. Calved from the Greenland ice sheet, it drifts, erodes and slowly disappears — a landscape in permanent revision.

In The Premise, Jun Ahn connects photographs of glaciers taken off the Greenland coast with the hidden infrastructures that sustain artificial intelligence. As the Arctic warms at roughly four times the global average, shipping routes reopen, data centers expand along the polar circle and the logic of efficiency accelerates what it quietly consumes.

The title refers to a backend system folder where images deleted by AI censorship are stored — not erased, but quarantined. What disappears is rarely gone; it is displaced, controlled or rendered invisible.

Climate collapse, algorithmic control and historical erasure operate within the same structure. Like an iceberg cut loose from the land, we drift inside it.

13/05/2026

Stéphane Couturier
Photo London 2026

At Photo London we present a solo presentation of works from E1027+123 – Villa Eileen Gray and the new series Corbusier Pavilion – Zurich.

Couturier does not document architecture, he reconstructs it. Through layering and digital recomposition, modernist icons dissolve into complex visual structures that shift between space, surface and abstraction.

A highlight is Tapisserie #1 (2025), where the photographic image becomes a woven, tactile object.

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12/05/2026

Roger Ballen
Drawing-based Polaroids

A decisive new body of work by Roger Ballen.

After five decades behind the camera, Ballen now intervenes directly on the photographic surface. Each Polaroid is hand-drawn using Winsor & Newton markers and Mitsubishi Posca pens, transforming the instant image into a unique hybrid between drawing and photography.

These works mark a significant evolution of the Ballenesque aesthetic. Raw. Psychological. Unmistakable. Each piece is a one-of-a-kind object.

€3,000 each
plus VAT, where applicable, and shipping

86 × 108 mm (3 3/8 × 4 1/4 in)
88 × 108 mm (3 1/2 × 4 1/4 in)

11/05/2026

Repost from .voleau
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❤️‍🔥🏠🔥the motif i’ve been obsessed with for the past two years: a house on fire.
Always unsettled and on the move, for a while now I’ve had no place to call home. So, my body has taken on that role, my sweet portable home. Only when I get hurt, I feel completely ablaze. There is no other refuge.

This series ‚you can have it all‘ shows two past versions of myself going through different fires, body dysmorphia in 2019 and heartbreak in 2024, with joy and fury.
Today stands a little burnt house, at the - shedding black dust every time you touch it. Charcoal is a magical material, it’s purifying, cleansing, but also messy and symbolic of the aftermath of destruction... among other interpretations.

Thank you Sabine for burning my house and make it stand - she involved her kids and family in the process and it only makes it more special!
Thank you obviously to Greg Tiani, who took my idea seriously and made it happen, and curated the show with me.
Standing until June 07 🖤

09/05/2026

Congratulations .voleau the highlighted winner of the Fotofestival Lenzburg 2026, winning the Jury Award supported by the Artphilein Foundation. Her project, “You Can Have It All,” explores body dysmorphia and healing through self-portraiture and is featured in the 2026 festival (May 9 – June 7).

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Montag	10:00 - 18:00
Dienstag	10:00 - 18:00
Mittwoch	10:00 - 18:00
Donnerstag	10:00 - 18:00
Freitag	10:00 - 18:00
Samstag	11:00 - 16:00

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