Axel Pilyser discovered photography at the age of fifteen.  After studying at the Louis-Lumière school and starting out as a set photographer, he worked as a chief op and then as a director-editor in political and entertainment programs. In 2010, he returned to the still image through large luminous paintings inspired by urban photographs. In 2012 he discovers West Africa during a reportage for an NGO. Since 2018, he divides his time between field reporting in Côte d’Ivoire, Togo and Benin, and projects as a visual artist, incorporating into the walls of a territory the portraits and written traces of those who live there.

Work in progress : The beach of Grand-Bassam; A solar in Santiago

Award: Finalist of the Saint-Tropez 2023 International Photography Grand Prize

Personal exhibitions :

Gmac Bastille 2010
Saint Sulpice 2016

Shared exhibitions :

Journée Européenne des métiers d’arts, 2022

Portes ouvertes Ateliers d’artistes de Paris Sept 2020, Oct 2021

 Mac, matières à créer, Crest, Juillet-Aout 2020

Salon du petit format, Châtenay-Malabry, 2019, 2021, 2022

Voix off Arles, Collectif du hérisson, 2019

Galerie Krysall, Genève, 2016 – 2018

Galerie Caroline Tresca, Paris, 2016