Basile PELLETIER (2002)

Trained at the Kourtrajmé School (JR's Arts & Image section) and later in Film Studies at Sorbonne Nouvelle, Basile Pelletier develops a body of work situated between fiction and documentary, the surreal and the real.

His images often emerge from a constructed mise-en-scene, yet always leave space for accident and chance. Telling stories through recurring characters played by his friends, who sometimes act and sometimes are simply captured as themselves, his photographs unfold just before or just after something happens, leaving the viewer to wonder what came before, or after. He plunges his mises-en-scene into elements that blur the contours of reality: night, fog, submerged scenes. In these moments, he doesn't fully see what he is photographing himself, and his flash exposes what he didn't quite see, or what we weren't supposed to see.

The quiet, the hidden, a parallel dimension where the strangeness of the world comes out.

In 2022, he showed his series 2060 at Le Centquatre, a poetic dystopia about rising sea levels.

In 2024, he received the American Vintage Photography Award at the Hyères International Festival of Fashion and Photography, for his series If I Could Make the World as Pure and Strange as What I See.

This prize led him, in 2025, to create A Time to Live, in Taiwan, a set of images inspired by the cinema of Edward Yang and Hou Hsiao-Hsien, capturing a youth suspended between childhood and adulthood.

He is currently working on Dans ma maison qui n'est pas ma maison tu viendras ("In my house that is not my house you will come"), a photographic series created collaboratively with Camille-Amandine in a family house in Brittany. For Camille-Amandine, it is an intimate place filled with layered memories. For Basile, the neighbour who does not belong to this history, the house is initially a foreign space, one of observation. Developed over six years, the project explores how photography can accompany the gradual disappearance of a place.

His work has been presented at Villa Noailles (Hyères, 2024, 2025), Galleria Continua (2021), Le Centquatre-Paris (2022), Arthub Gallery (London, 2022), La Caserne (Paris, 2022), and Agnès b. (Montpellier), among others, and published in Fisheye Magazine, Photo, Les Carnets du paysage (Actes Sud), Another Magazine, Vanity Fair France...