Laurent Kronental was born in 1987.
He lives and works in Paris (France). Self-taught photographer, he discovers photography in China during a stay of several months in Beijing. He has been captivated by the big metropolises there and by the variety of their architectures, their inhabitants, the way they tame the space and their personal stories. He has developed from 2011 to 2015 his first artistic series, "Souvenir d'un Futur", on the elderly living in the large estates of the Paris region. The photographer intends to question us on the condition of seniors in these places in highlighting a sometimes neglected generation. He pushes forward another look on often underestimated suburban areas whose walls seem slowly get older and carry with them the memory of a modernist utopia. "Souvenir d'un Futur" was nominated and distinguished in international photographic prizes. In 2015, this series allowed Laurent Kronental to win "la Bourse du Talent" in the category landscape. He has been then exhibited at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France which has integrated his images into its photographic collection. The photographer has been selected and rewarded in 2016 to the Festival Circulations (Festival of young European photography) where he received the audience award. He was also finalist of the Lens Culture Exposure Awards in the same year. His work has been exhibited in Paris, Moscow, London, Athens, Seoul and published in numerous magazines in France and abroad including The Washington Post, The British Journal of Photography, The Guardian, National Geographic, Wired, CNN, Le Monde, L'Obs.
AWARDS & GRANTS
2016 - Nominee, Prix Pictet "Space"
2016 - Winner, Festival Circulations, Audience Award
2016 - Selected, Athens Photo Festival
2016 - Finalist, LensCulture Exposure Awards
2015 - Selected, Festival Circulations
2015 - Winner, Bourse du Talent #64 landscape / space / architecture
2015 - Finalist, Photo Folio Reviews, Arles
EXHIBITIONS & ART FAIRS
Solo Exhibitions
September / October 2016 - Solo show, Galerie du Carré d'Art, Rennes, France
Group Exhibitions
2017
"Paysages Français, une aventure photographique", Bibliothèque Nationale François-Mitterrand, Paris, France
Moscow International Biennale, "Fashion and style in photography", Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, Russia
Conseil d'Architecture, d'Urbanisme et de l'Environnement des Hauts de Seine, "L'ombre de l'angle", Nanterre, France
Emerging European Photography, Librairie Maupetit Actes Sud, Marseille, France
2016
Architectural Film Festival, "Vivre l'utopie", Galerie Robert Doisneau, Nancy, France
Seoul Photo Festival, "Invisible City", Art Space Boan 1942, Seoul, South Korea
"Cause the grass don't grow and the sky ain't blue", Galerie Praz Delavallade, Paris
France Athens Photo Festival, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece
Photo London with LensCulture, Somerset House, United Kingdom
Festival Circulations, emerging European photography
Exhibition at villa Noailles, commissioned work, la villa Reine Jeanne, Hyères, France
Bourse du Talent, Bibliothèque Nationale François-Mitterrand, Paris, France
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS, REVIEWS, INTERVIEWS
Video interviews
CNN, LensCulture, Arte Metropolis, Festival Circulations and Louis & Lumière
Published
Washington Post
National Geographic
British Journal of Photography
Wired
The Guardian
CNN
Vice Creators Project
Aesthetica Magazine
Slate
Wallpaper
Port Magazine
Business Insider
Hot Shoe International
Le Monde
L'Obs
Beaux Arts Magazine
Suddeutsche Zeitung
Der Spiegel
De Morgen
Zoom Magazine
Lufthansa Magazine
British Airways High Life Magazine
Easy Jet traveler Magazine
European Photography
New York Style Magazine
GUP Magazine
So it Goes
PBS News Hour
D-La Repubblica
Style Magazine Corriere della Sera
Lens Culture
Neon Magazine
D'Architectures
Ideat
L'Insensé
Le Parisien
Connaissance des Arts
6 Mois
L'Oeil de la Photographie
Pagina 99
M&C Saatchi Little Stories
Feature Shoot
It's Nice That
Ignant
Konbini
Ilpost
Fisheye Magazine
Style Park
Phoenix Magazine
Site Magazine
Arquine
Artnet News
Wyborcza Duzy Format
Tidskriften Rum
La Vanguardia
Archdaily
Dezeen
Divisare
Fubiz
Huffington Post
Urbanautica
Kwerfeldein
Roads and Kingdoms
The Hundreds
Retard
And others