gilblachephotographer@gmail.com
T. +33 (6) 35 16 49 99
Gil Blache was born in Paris, in 1953. He currently lives either near Lyon or in Saigon. His father was a literature teacher, passionate about cinema; and his mother liked classical music. His education was turned to humanist values and he grew up close to “New Wave cinema” and ”psychedelic rock music”. During his childhood and teenage years, he took his first art photographs and first short films which prefigured his later work. Then, Gil Blache focused his time to medicine, family life, still strongly connected to the artistic environment. In 1999, after 15 years of silence, he started photography over. Ob-Gyn, he travelled to practice near different populations, which he loves to discover and understand. He started at first in Senegal for two years, then multiple times in Vietnam from 1986 until now.
His numerous trips and his passion for painting are his source of inspiration; the series show nature, architecture and people in the eyes of a painter; lines, colors, compositions are essential in his work. The themes he treats interact and contain the constant questioning of the artist, regarding the human being in its environment, appearances, dreams, and escape…faced by the indifference of passing time. He shoots color pictures, with a “Medium format camera” suitable to large prints. At first, he used film, then switched to digital.
Gil Blache est né à Paris en 1953. Il vit à présent soit près de Lyon, soit à Ho Chi Minh Ville. Son père, professeur de français, cinéphile, et sa mère amatrice de musique classique lui inculquent une culture humaniste ; le cinéma de la « nouvelle vague » et «la psychédélique rock music » marqueront son adolescence. Durant son enfance et cette adolescence il réalise ses premières photos et courts métrages qui préfigureront son travail. Gil Blache se consacre ensuite à ses études de médecine et à sa vie personnelle et familiale jusqu’en 1999 date à laquelle, et après 15 ans de silence, il reprend la photographie. Dans ce laps de temps, il reste fortement connecté à la création artistique contemporaine, collectionneur et curieux averti. Gynécologue Obstétricien, il est amené à voyager pour mettre ses compétences aux services d’autres populations, qu’il aime découvrir et comprendre, d’abord au Sénégal pendant deux ans, puis au Vietnam où il œuvre régulièrement depuis 1986.
Ses voyages, sources d’inspiration et sa passion pour la peinture livrent des séries où nature, architectures et humains sont photographiées avec le regard d’un peintre. Lignes, couleurs, compositions sont des éléments essentiels de l’œuvre photographique de Gil Blache. Ses thèmes se répondent et contiennent son questionnement constant sur la place et le devenir des humains, les apparences, le rêve et l’évasion…face à l’indifférence du temps qui passe. Il tavaille en couleur avec un équipement Moyen Format, initialement argentique, puis numérique, adapté aux grands tirages.
● Archives (1965-1972) + movies
● Silences (1999-2005)
● NY the wall2 (2005)
● Natures (2006-…)
● Ailleurs (1999-…)
● Vacuum and solitudes (2007-…)
● Broken but living (2005-2007)
● Traces (2008_2011)
● People (2007-…)
● Blockhaus (2009-2013)+book +video
● Walls, abstraction (2008-2012)
● Natures mortes (2009-…)
● A.U.M. (2010) + video
● Mau (2010-2011) +video
● Just feeling (2011-…)
● Surrealism (2011-…)
● Walls and facades (2007-…)
● Barges et containers (2010-2012) + video
● Futur anterieur (2013-2018) + video
● Lake side forest (2014-2018)
● New horizon (2014-2016)
● Living 2 (2016-2019)
● Ice, snow, water (2018-2022)
● Des Arbres et de l’Eau (2021)
● Bâches (2023-2025)
● Murs (2024 – 2026)
Equipment, Shooting:
Camera Canon argentic until year 2005; Cameras Hasselblad Medium Format since year 2005
(argentic until 2017, digital from 2018 to now)
Development and Print :
Tirage Lambda or Print Fine Art.
Edition : 1 Single print + 1 Artist print.
(only in rare old series, a few number of pictures were printed and sold in 2 to 8 prints (noted under each picture concerned)
- For any information concerning the purchase of picture, use "contact" above.
- Except for few old pictures (as noted under each one), all are now printed in One Single
edition + One AP (artist print/épreuve d'artiste)
The total size and the margin are also mentioned under each picture. (OA = "over all" (hors tout)).
Pictures are usually framed, wood)
For any question or proposal of projects, contact by e-mail
studiogilblache@gmail.com or by phone : + 33 6 35 16 49 99
