Edition 2016
Alexandre Guirkinger
Born 1980, Villeneuve-Saint-Georges, France. Lives and works in Paris, France.
Alexandre Guirkinger graduated from IEP in Lille and did a brief stint at Magnum Photos as a production manager before deciding to focus on photography fulltime in 2006. He has worked for M magazine, the Wall Street Journal Magazine, AD, Inrockuptibles and T Magazine, developing a photographic language that runs the gamut from landscapes to portraits, still lifes and archival images. In 2010, Guirkinger started making collaborative pieces with such artists as Étienne Chambaud, Raimundas Malasauskas, Alex Cecchetti and Tarek Atoui. Meanwhile, he has worked on personal projects that have been likened to conceptual documentaries. In 2015, he completed his long-term Maginot Line project. Guirkinger is represented by the Rose agency in Paris.