Skull, 2010

Cyrille Charro  

Cyrille Charro is a French-Lebanese artist born in 1979. Between two cultures, he spent his childhood navigating between France and Lebanon, two worlds of striking contrasts. This original duality nourishes his sensitivity and has a lasting impact on his vision of the world. Through photography, he explores questions of identity, memory, and perception, making his art a mirror of his inner reflection.

Trained in applied arts in Lyon, he acquired solid technical mastery and refined his vision. His first series are part of a fashion and studio aesthetic, combining formal rigor and attention to detail. Influenced by the sobriety of Japonism, but also by the narrative power of Joel Peter Witkin and Nan Goldin, Cyrille Charro develops a unique visual universe, blending portraits and objects in compositions imbued with ambiguity.

With his diploma in hand, he gradually moved away from commercial photography to engage in more introspective and critical research. Through stagings of ordinary objects, he questions the dark side of our times: hidden violence, trivialized cruelty, humanity anesthetized by a flood of images and information. His work evokes the schizophrenia of a society that turns its gaze away from its own dark side.

Without taboo, Cyrille Charro addresses pain, fragility, and the human condition. His images, often tinged with a morbid beauty, reveal a disturbing, almost mystical poetry. Between fascination and unease, they plunge the viewer into a face-to-face encounter with the raw truth of existence. Exhibited in France and Europe, his photographs bear witness to a lucid and profoundly human perspective on the complexity of the contemporary world.