Berges de la rivère Jialing. District de Jiangbei (2017) Photography by Cyruscornut

Cyrus Cornut, 45, Paris. A photographer and architect by training, his work focuses primarily on the city, its visual appearance, its evolution, its traces, its voids, and the human behaviors it induces. In 2006, his first work on Chinese cities was exhibited at the Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie in Arles under the artistic direction of Raymond Depardon. He was a member of the cooperative agency Picturetank, which he joined in 2007, until its closure in 2017. In 2010, with the France14 group, he exhibited "Voyage en périphérique," a work on landscapes of mass housing in the Île-de-France region. He then developed a 4x5 view camera approach, which allowed him to take a slow look at urban developments in Asia, as well as in France, as well as a more visual style combining drawing, engraving, and photography. Since 2011, his research has focused on the role of plants in the urban landscape, as well as the rural landscape. Thus, "Alberstein's Journey" was born, a collaborative work that attempts to synthesize various questions about humans, their natural, planned, or relational environment, and the temporal framework in which they evolve. In 2017, he completed a study on the world's largest metropolis, Chongqing, in China. Winner of the HSBC Prize, this work will be published as a book: "Chongqing, on the four banks of passing time," Editions Xavier Barral, 2021. His work has been exhibited and published in France and abroad.

• Nationality: FRANCE
• Date of birth : 1977
• Artistic domains: Works by professional artists,
• Groups: Professional Artist Contemporary French Artists