Laurent Champoussin was born in 1970 in Nice. He lives and works between Paris and Nantes. After studying film research, he worked in the film industry for over fifteen years, collaborating as an executive producer with directors such as Alain Cavalier, Aki Kaurismäki, and Nuri Bilge Ceylan. Since 2007, he has focused entirely on photography. Eschewing specialization, he pursues a poetic sensibility across portraiture, landscape, sports, travel, and on-set film photography. With a gentle, inquisitive working method developed over the years, he approaches his subjects with simplicity and candor, registering mountains as bodies, cities as faces, and plants as if they were paintings. He deliberately effaces cues of time, scale, and place from his images to create, if only briefly, a sense of disorientation in the viewer.
Champoussin works regularly on the film sets of Eric Khoo, Hirokazu Kore-Eda, and Emmanuelle Bercot, and collaborates with institutions and brands such as Hermès, La Scène nationale d’Alençon, Sartore, and the Philharmonie de Paris.