Rémi Noël
Rémi Noël didn’t start photography at the age of 6 with his grandfather’s Rolleiflex, even though he only uses traditional film cameras. He was in fact 30 when he set his desire for images free and produced a few still lifes at his place, in Paris. But it wasn’t long until he decided to leave his Parisian studio for the American far West.
From this very first American journey, he fine-tuned a unique creation process: all year round he conceives his images, sketches them, then, for about ten days, he heads West, cradle of the American civilization, that had become his infinite source of inspiration. Rémi Noël is a poet, a poet who uses images as his main language. His photographs, carrying a deep sense of freedom - that same freedom sought after by most travellers -, brilliantly mingles imagination with reality.
Rémi Noël already published several books of his work and in 2013 he founded “Poetry Wanted”, a publishing company specialized in photography. His “Texas” series triggered the idea to create the collection “This is not a map”, photography publications in the form of road maps that unite a photographer with a location.
EXHIBITIONS AT THE GALLERY
SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND GROUP SHOWS
2023
”A Black and White Journey”, Bigaignon, Paris
”Chair de Temps”, Bigaignon, Paris
2021
”Dear America”, Bigaignon, Paris
2020
”Voyages extra-ordinaires”, Festival du regard, Cergy-Pontoise
”United”, group show, Galerie Bigaignon, Paris
2019
”Bernard Plossu et ses amis”, group show, Maison Folie Hospice d’Havré, Tourcoing
2018
”This is not a map / USA”, group show, Festival Itinéraires des photographes voyageurs, Bordeaux
2016
”My Hero!”, group show, Bedford Gallery, San Francisco
2015
”On the road”, Fotofever Art Fair, Paris
2013
”Texas”, Republic Gallery, Paris
2011
”Poetry wanted”, atelier Demi-Teinte, Paris
2006
”Young blood”, group show, Opera gallery, New York
2005
”Rémi Noël – Photographies”, Passage du désir Gallery, Paris
FOAM (Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam), group show, Amsterdam
2004
”Vaguement poétique”, atelier Demi-Teinte, Paris
”Confrontation/histoire(s) parallèle(s)”, group show, Institut Néerlandais, Paris
PUBLICATIONS
2014 Comics Feeeever, Victionary Publishing
2013 62_Texas, This Is Not A Map, Poetry Wanted Publishing
2011 Adventures in microwave cooking and other stories, Privately printed book
2008 United States of Rémi Noël, Privately printed book
2003 Vaguement poétique, Eden / Janvier Publishing
2001 Natures mortes mais pas trop, Eden / Janvier Publishing
