Born in 1968, graduate of the University of Paris 8 and the National School of Art of Paris-Cergy, Gilles Raynaldy lives and works in Paris.
His work has been the subject of several scholarships and public and private commissions (CNAP, Le BAL / Ministry of Education, Le Point du Jour Art Center, Documenta Archiv Kassel, International College of Photography of Greater Paris...). His works are notably present in the collections of the National Fund for Contemporary Art, the Grenoble Museum, the FRAC Normandie, and the departmental collection of contemporary art of Seine-Saint-Denis.
Trained in traditional photography techniques, he mainly works with medium and large format cameras, and prints his own photographs or collaborates with recognized professional printers.
Since the late 1990s, Gilles Raynaldy has been interested in the representation of human gestures and actions by developing a photographic approach that often takes the form of documentary narratives. The question of what constitutes a "place" also runs through his work and is developed through projects rooted in social contexts and territories particularly rich in diversity.
Monographs
- Welcome my friend. The Jungle of Calais, February – October 2016. Editions Le point du Jour (France) and Spector Book (Germany), 2022 (Nominated for the Best Author Book Award, RIP Arles 2023)
- Jean-Jaurès, Paris, Purpose editions, 2015 (Nominated for the Best Author Book Award, RIP Arles 2015 and the Best First Book Award, Paris Photo / Aperture 2015)
Solo Exhibitions (Selection)
- 2023 Nouveau venu, qui cherches Rome en Rome, Pianobi Space. Curator, Alesandro Dandini de Sylva, Rome, Italy
- 2016 Jean-Jaurès, f/stop Festival, June-July. Curators, Anne König and Jan Wenzel. Leipzig, Germany
- 2013 Two retirement homes in Le Bourget, La Capsule, André Malraux Cultural Center, Le Bourget
- 2013 The Construction Site of the National Archives, 2005-2012, National Archives, Pierrefitte-sur-Seine
Group Exhibitions (Selection)
- 2024 Exiles, Exhibition curator: Dominique de Font Reaulx, Louvre Lens
- 2023 A History of Images, Donation Antoine de Galbert, Grenoble Museum
- 2023 Dressing for School, National Museum of Education, Rouen
- 2019 Spectators of the Documenta 14, slideshow-video, Neue Galerie, Kassel, Germany
- 2019 Reinventing Calais. Exhibition curators: Pascal Beausse and Nathalie Giraudeau. Center Photographique d’Île de France, Pontault-Combault
- 2019 Jean-Jaurès, a school city at the Fotodoks Festival. Lothringer13 Halle, Munich, Germany
Collective Works, Catalogs, Publications, Articles (Selection)
- A History of Images, Donation Antoine de Galbert at the Grenoble Museum, exhibition catalog, 2023
- Newcomer, looking for Rome in Rome, exhibition catalog, ed. Aniene, 2023
- Michel Poivert, 50 Years of French Photography from 1970 to the Present Day, Paris, ed. Textuel, 2019
- Bauhaus/Documenta. Vision and Brand, exhibition catalog, ed. Spector Books, 2019
- Crossed Readings, Alexis-de-Tocqueville Library - Oma, Rem Koolhaas, collective work, ed. Le Point du jour, 2017
- f/stop Festival, exhibition catalog, ed. Spector Books, 2016
- Jan Wenzel, Review of the book Jean-Jaurès in Camera Austria International n°135, 2016
- Michel Poivert, "The Democratic Vein" in Art Press 2, 2014
Public Interventions
- France Culture, the Carnets de la Création with Aude Lavigne
- France Culture, La Fabrique de l’Histoire with Emmanuel Laurentin and Séverine Liatard
Workshops
- 2023 Workshop at the Istituto Europeo di Design in Rome
- 2019 Workshop at the École Supérieure d’Art Aix en Provence, invited by Jürgen Nefzger
- 2019 Creation workshop at the Point du Jour art center, Cherbourg, with residents of a retirement home. Theme: "A newspaper"
- 2017 Workshop at the École Normale Supérieure de Cachan. Theme: "The School's Move"
- 2011 Writing workshops with female inmates in the women's section of the Rouen Detention Center, as part of the "Encounters with Photography" coordinated by the Pôle Image Haute-Normandie. Theme: "Journey around my cell"