Basile PELLETIER (2002)

Photographer, artist, and designer, Basile Pelletier lives and works in Paris. Trained at the Kourtrajmé school (Art & Image section) and then at the Sorbonne Nouvelle in film, Pelletier's work is driven by a desire to tell stories without concluding, to create worlds where ambiguity becomes language. His images most often originate from a precise mise-en-scène, but always leave room for accident, chance, and a sense of fluidity. They seem to exist just before or after something: a gesture, a revelation, a disappearance. This shift, both gentle and unsettling, is at the heart of his work.

In 2021, Basile Pelletier created the series "2060," presented at Le Centquatre and the Arthub Gallery in London: an aquatic dystopia about rising sea levels: a familiar world slowly submerged, where beauty persists amidst the catastrophe. This work marks an initial articulation between the real and the poetic.

In 2024, he received the American Vintage Photography Prize at the Hyères International Festival for "If I could make the world as pure and strange as what I see," a series that encapsulates the essence of his approach: this series explores the power of observation, the element of strangeness contained in everyday gestures, and the possibility of an open narrative—where photography doesn't close anything off, but allows the world to continue beyond the frame. This prize led him to create, in 2025 in Taiwan, "A Time to Live," a collection of images inspired by the films of Edward Yang and Hou Hsiao-Hsien, where he captures a state, a threshold: that of youth suspended between childhood and adulthood.

Finally, since 2019, Basile has co-directed the brand and collective Humanitas, founded with Antoine Markovic. Conceived as a narrative extension of her visual work, Humanitas uses clothing as an instrument of fiction: each collection—Venezia Mysteria, Une révolution s’impose, Jimmi, en attendant—tells a story. Several of her works have been presented at Villa Noailles (Hyères, 2024, 2025), Galleria Continua (2021), Cent-quatre (Paris, 2022), Arthub Gallery (London, 2022), La Caserne (Paris, 2022), Agnès B. (Montpellier, 2024)… and published in Fisheye Magazine, Photo, and Les Carnets du paysage (Actes Sud).