PODCAST: Cyrus Cornut / HSBC 2021 Prize for Photography

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Cyrus Cornuttrained asanarchitect.His work focuses primarily on the city, its plasticity, evolution, traces and voids, and the human behaviors it induces.

In 2006, his first work on Chinese cities was exhibited at the Rencontres Internationales de la photographie d'Arles under the artistic direction of Raymond Depardon. A member of the Picturetank cooperative agency from 2007 to 2017, in 2010 he exhibited "Voyage en périphérie" with the France14 group, a work on the landscapes of mass housing in the Île-de-France region.

From 2011 onwards, his research also focuses on the place of plants in the urban landscape, but also on the rural landscape. The result is "Le voyage d'Alberstein" (Alberstein's Journey), a collaborative work that attempts to synthesize different questions about the human being, his or her natural, planned or relational environment, and the temporal framework in which he or she evolves.

Today, he is developing his 4x5" camera work, which enables him to take a slow look at urban developments in Asia and France, as well as an artistic style combining drawing, engraving and photography. His work is exhibited in France and abroad , including in the collections of Florence and Damien Bachelot, the Bibliothèque Nationale de France and the Arsenal de Metz.

This year, he was awarded the HSBC Prize for Photography for his series "Chongquing, sur les quatre rives du temps qui passe" ("Chongquing, on the four shores of passing time"). a project that took himto the banks of the Yangtze River in China.

The HSBC Prize for Photography also honored photographer Assmaa Akhannouch for her series "La maison qui m'habite encore ".