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French-American photographer, represented by the Agence VU' since 1992 and by the Clémentine de la Féronnière Gallery since 2016. He lives and works mainly in Los Angeles.
Guillaume Zuili made his first journey in India when he was 21. He was fascinated by the former French trading posts and began a black and white work to unveil their nostalgic atmosphere. This ten-year project (1986-1995) lead up to two books: « The French Trading Posts in India » in 1992 and « Pondicherry » in 2003. It reveals a certain vision of photography: one that evokes and transmits sensations, moments and tones.
In the late 90s, Guillaume Zuili asserts his own universe, a definitive urban one. He travels, questions, explores both capitals like Paris, Berlin, Moscow, Prague or Lisbon, and photographic techniques so as to manifest their atmospheres. He uses overprints and a photographic chamber to offer "a subjective vision that place cities within a temporality, within an history, within contradictions that become visible only because photography brought up their elements together." (Christian Caujolle)
In the 2000s, he has made Los Angeles his urban and aesthetic laboratory. His work is that of questioning the notion of symbol, the nature of the photographic medium, mixing techniques and paying a particular attention to prints. He reveals his impressions in between the full sun and night-time neon lights, in between representations of icons and the images’ grain abstraction. In doing this, he unveils the attires of a fantasized America which does not exist anymore. In 2017, he published the book « Smoke and Mirrors », offering « a sublimated echo of this very space that we go through and that we experiment daily. (…) Sensuality is inscribed in the very material of the gelatine, it pervades the sheets, it is lying in the successive layers that are worked by light. » (Christian Caujolle)
He is the Prize-winner of the 2017 Camera Clara Photo Award. His works appear in several photographic collections, such as that of Marin Karmitz (MK2) and of the French National Library (BNF).
Limited edition of 100 copiesFull paper cardboard caseMagnetic embossed cover 215 x 275 x 32 mm7 fine art prints 18 x 24 cmCertificate of authenticity signed and numbered by the artist
IL ÉTAIT UNE FOIS DANS L’ORNE... Co-production: Le Champ des Impossibles & Filigranes (2019) Format: 120 x 165 - 64 pages English/French Paperback 25 black and white photographs ISBN : 978-2-35046-484-8
Signed book Clémentine de la Féronnière (2017) 120 pages Relié toilé, 26 x 34 cm ISNB : 1096575051
Signed book Publisher : Clementine de La Feronniere (2020) Texts by Christine Ollier and Julie Corteville English/French 144 pages Cover bound canvas, gilding iron, photograph brought in ISBN 979-10-96575-14-5
DANS L’INTIMITÉ D’UN TERRITOIRE Co-production: Le Champs des Impossibles & Filigranes (2021) Format: 120 x 165 - 64 pages English/French Paperback 30 color photographs ISBN : 978-2-35046-524-1