Matthieu Gafsou is a Swiss photographer and faculty at ECAL; he was awarded the "Prix de la fondation HSBC pour la photographie" in 2009 and takes part in 2010 in the reGeneration2 exhibition at the Aperture Foundation.
Matthieu Gafsou published several books including H+ / Transhumanism(s) in 2018 with Kehrer, project which is also the subject of an exhibition at the Rencontres d'Arles festival the same year.
© Matthieu Gafsou (self-portrait taken from the Fondation Leenaards website)
H+ / Transhumanism(s) (*signed*)
Presentation by Kehrer Verlag : "Transhumanism (abbreviated as H+) is an international intellectual movement that aims to transform the human condition by developing and making widely available sophisticated technologies to enhance human intellect and physiology. Matthieu Gafsou’s H+ series explores transhumanism and all kinds of body modification or...
Publisher's presentation : "Matthieu Gafsou spent more than a year immersed in the lives of drug addicts. His photographs reveal the night, the moral abandon, and an altered reality. The portraits are noble, picturesque, far from the clichés the subject attracts; they reside alongside still lifes, allegorical landscapes, and abstractions. Together, they...