Gaëtan Changeur was born in 1981 in Paris. His passion for photography began around the age of 16, when he discovered the process of developing analog photographs with his father, who had built his own darkroom.
During this formative period, he encountered the work of Man Ray, whose surreal and experimental universe captivated him. Deeply inspired, Gaëtan spent several years creating numerous photograms and pinhole photographs, blending painting and photography through inventive, hybrid techniques.
Later, during an internship, he turned his focus to food photography. This exploration opened a new chapter in his creative journey, sparking a growing interest in color. From this emerged his first major color-based project: Culinary Compressions.
Through his images, he offers a true explosion of color and form, exploring both solid and liquid matter, which he then combines to create abstract compositions.
“It’s a macroscopic dive into the origins of substance.”
After exhibiting in both Nice and Paris, he was selected in 2015 for the artist residency La Friche in Nice, where he joined around twenty artists from a variety of disciplines—sculpture, theatre, graphic design, puppetry, and more.
In 2017, following this collaborative experience, he sought to introduce motion into his photographic work. This led him to immerse various liquids—inks, milk, and others—into a large water-filled aquarium. The result: a new artistic project titled Liquid Soul.
“It’s not just the technical process that brings the image to life. I always add my personal touch, striving to breathe life into the composition, giving it my final interpretation.”
Artist Statement
Gaëtan Changeur is a French artist who creates captivating photographs of underwater landscapes. Using an aquarium as his stage, Gaëtan introduces pigments into the water, allowing them to disperse and form unique shapes, textures, and atmospheres.
His artistic approach lies at the intersection of painting and photography. The fleeting, poetic scenes he captures are the result of constantly shifting interactions between light, water, and pigment—ephemeral moments frozen in time through his lens.
Mystical and mesmerizing, his works explore themes of nature, time, and the boundary between reality and imagination, inviting the viewer into a truly contemplative experience.
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