Ronan Guillou –Angel

Born in 1968 in Bouar (Central African Republic), Ronan Guillou lives in Paris, where he has worked as a photographer since 1997. In the early 2000s Ronan Guillou undertook his first personal photographic investigations of American urban spaces, conducted alongside his fashion and advertising commissions. The United States gradually became Ronan’s main subject and has led to a veritable odyssey in colour across the America of this new millennium. Avid for experience, the photographer allows luck and chance encounters to direct his narrative, probing and observing this fascinating country where fiction and reality are uniquely bound. Structured by both documentary intent and exploration of form, Ronan’s images express an affinity with the American iconographic tradition, of which he offers a personal reinterpretation forged during numerous and lengthy travels. Since 2005, Ronan’s work has been shown in personal and collective exhibitions in France and the United States. In November 2011, his book “ANGEL” came out at Trans Photographic Press Publishing, with the foreword written by WIM WENDERS. Ronan Guillou is represented by NextLevel Galerie in Paris.