Thierry Clech

Working exclusively in film and black & white, Thierry Clech photographs during his travels: Japan, Istanbul, India, Nicaragua, Ukraine… His images have been exhibited in France and abroad (National Library of Belarus, Nadar Gallery, Barrob Objectif Festival, Tourcoing Book and Photography Meetings, FotoIstanbul Festival ...). He has published two books in collaboration with French novelists, Philippe Jaenada (“Deja vu”, published by Philippe Chauveau, 2007), and Bernard Chambaz (“Imprimer le Monde”, published by Tigre, 2010), as well as two books dedicated to Japan and New York, “Explosante-fixes” and “224 West, 49th St”, published in 2015 and 2018 by Iki editions, in the Le pont rouge collection.

Thierry Clech is also a novelist and screenwriter for the cinema.

“Photographer-traveler, Thierry Clech captures with astonishing acuity the essence of the cities he explores, and delivers us images that are both spontaneous and highly constructed, of a striking visual beauty, which capture all the richness of the instant. They show scenes that are both characteristic of the life of the place where they take place and totally unique, imbued with a sensitivity to the passage of time and the impermanence of things. Like vignettes sketched from life by a keen observer, the scenes we witness are sometimes amusing, sometimes touching, but in any case always surprising and rich in several levels of reading. Although they are taken without premeditation, Thierry Clech's photographs all demonstrate a great mastery of framing, an innate ability to move from narrative complexity to formal purity. »Valérie Douniaux, Doctor of Art History, specialized in photography and contemporary Japanese art, editor.