Catala Vincent

French photographer, member of Agence VU’ since 2014, lives and works between Brazil and France.

Graduating in 2000 with a Master’s degree in Intellectual Property (McGill University, Canada), Vincent Catala trained as a self-taught photographer before establishing himself as a professional photographer in 2006. In his commissions as well as in his personal work, he approaches the relationship of the individual to his space, and shows, by contextualizing them, their subjective representations: solitude, freedom, presence in the world…

Sensitive to long-term approaches, he is interested in specific territories, both very defined but complex, which give a certain representation of the world, and where the idea of a universality is played out through encounters and a given geography.

In his personal work, his gaze is set on the margins and peripheries of large cities, in which he has wandered relentlessly, sometimes for years. Since 2013, he has been drawing the portrait of a Brazil crossed by doubts and disenchantment, from the western zone of Rio de Janeiro to the region of São Paulo and Brasília in 2022.

In parallel to his personal work, he responds to public and private commissions related to urbanism and architecture, in Brazil and in Europe. He produces portraits for the French and international press, particularly of figures from the Brazilian cultural life and underground, as well as stories about life in Brazil (published in M le Monde, Télérama, Fisheye Magazine, Revista ZUM, etc.).

His work has also been the subject of numerous exhibitions in Paris, Amman, Los Angeles, Rio de Janeiro, Tbilisi, Braga, Cadaqués, and has been the winner of many awards. In January 2015 he joined the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro (MAM/RJ). During the 2017 edition of Paris Photo, the VU’ gallery presented some of his work on Brazil. In 2019, the Moreira Salles Institute did the same in São Paulo.Son travail a fait de plus l’objet de nombreuses expositions à Paris, Amman, Los Angeles, Rio de Janeiro, Tbilissi, Braga, Cadaqués, et a été lauréat de nombreux prix. En janvier 2015 il intègre la collection permanente du Musée d’Art Moderne de Rio de Janeiro (MAM/RJ). Lors de l’édition 2017 de Paris Photo, la galerie VU’ présente une partie de son travail sur le Brésil. En 2019, l’Institut Moreira Salles fait de même à São Paulo.