Antoine Violleau

Antoine Violleau is a French photographer whose work moves between contemplative landscape, symbolic portraiture and urban collage. Based near Nantes, France, he has been working with photography since the early 2000s.

His images explore the fragile boundary between reality and inner perception. Inspired by cinema, street culture and documentary photography, Antoine Violleau creates atmospheric works where silence, tension and poetry coexist. His landscapes often evoke a sense of solitude and timelessness, while his portraits reveal the hidden narratives and identities carried by the people he photographs.

Having lived several years abroad, including in Jamaica and West Africa, his visual language is deeply influenced by music, especially reggae and dub culture. This experience led him to document key figures of the dub scene, capturing intimate portraits of artists and sound system pioneers.

Alongside photography, Antoine Violleau also creates digital collages using fragments of torn advertising posters photographed in urban environments. These works transform street remnants into layered visual compositions reflecting contemporary society, memory and emotional states.

His work has been exhibited online and collected internati...

Self-Taught

Halloween serie published in the Abridged 0-39 magazine during the Belfast Photo festival 2016

May 2017 : "The Beauty and The Beast" - Nantes Fashion Days at the Radisson Blu