Sylvain Biard
Photographer
Graduated in Paris from the School of Photography and Audiovisual EFET in 2006, I started my professional activity as a cameraman and freelance editor before diversifying also in institutional photography. I occupy a very large part of my free time with personal photographic projects. I am a member of the French collective Fragment.
Finalist in festivals of street photography Observe, Urban Picnic, Miami SPF and Streetfoto San Francisco.
1sr and 3rd prize at Brussels Street Photography Festival and LensCulture awards, 2016.
Sylvain Biard
Photographer
Graduated in Paris from the School of Photography and Audiovisual EFET in 2006, I started my professional activity as a cameraman and freelance editor before diversifying also in institutional photography. I occupy a very large part of my free time with personal photographic projects. I am a member of the French collective Fragment.
Finalist in festivals of street photography Observe, Urban Picnic, Miami SPF and Streetfoto San Francisco.
1sr and 3rd prize at Brussels Street Photography Festival and LensCulture awards, 2016.
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I Declare a Permanent State of HappinessKenneth GoldsmithMy entire poetic production is founded upon Wittgenstein’s later writings. Although it has sat on my shelf for decades, I never actually read the Tractatus. But I always loved the idea of it; I am a conceptual writer, after all. –Kenneth Goldsmith (more…)
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Tom Hegen / Salt WorksLimited EditionThe archival pigment print inserted in Tom Hegen’s special edition Salt Works shows one of the many sea salt production sites the photographer portrayed from the air and captured in their unique beauty as an abstract field. (more…)
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WITCHES! About bodies, knowledge and powerOct 7, 2023 – Jan 14, 2024From the 15th century to the present day, this theme has also been used to shape a wide variety of images of femininity in art: the ugly old woman as well as the young, seductive femme fatale. The witch was and is a fascinating motif in works since Albrecht Dürer and Hans Baldung Grien. Since the beginning of the 20th century, the male perspective on the subject has been contrasted with a female, positive view (more…)
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Kapwani Kiwanga / The Length of the HorizonSep 16, 2023 – Jan 7, 2024Research-based, thematically highly topical, and future-oriented – these terms can be used to describe the impressive work of Kapwani Kiwanga (b. 1978). From September 16, 2023 to January 7, 2024, the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg will present the first comprehensive mid-career retrospective of the Canadian and French artist (more…)
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Kara Walker: Back of Hand / Prince McVeigh and the Turner BlasphemiesSep 21 – Dec 3, 2023The Georgetown University Art Galleries are thrilled to present Kara Walker: Back of Hand in their de la Cruz Art Gallery, for the first exhibition of these new works in Washington by this internationally renowned artist. The exhibition displays a series of new works on paper by Kara Walker that examine themes such as complicity, racism, misremembered histories, and the violence that undergirds the legacy of the South. (more…)
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On the Peripheryby Sinziana VelicescuSinziana Velicescu’s work is a minimalist and abstract approach, a modern chronicling of a quiet land surveyor, completely separated of sentimentality. The publication of her series is a documentation of time, bracketed in images of framed surfaces of space. (more…)
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Harvard Design Magazine / Issue 51Multihyphenate: F/W 2023Multihyphenation is a compound term referring to alternate modes of creative production: “Collab” culture; “brand X brand” projects; and multiple, or even opaque styles of attribution and ownership among the individuals, studios, and practices that engage in such work. For them, the “body of work” they produce matters more than maintaining a singular creative identity (more…)
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Alain LaboilePhotographerBorn on May 1, 1968 in Bordeaux, France, Alain Laboile is a photographer and father of six. In 2004, as he needed to put together a portfolio of his work as a sculptor, he acquired a camera, and thus developed a taste for macrophotography (more…)
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COLLECTIONSAvailable Works for SaleWelcome to the new Online Boutique of Artpil with unique contemporary art works, limited edition photography, and monograph artist and photo books available for purchase. Here are some featured collections: (more…)
