Born in Paris in 1972, Ambroise graduated from the Applied Arts School of Vevey, Switzerland in 1994. First based in London and then Paris, he worked as a photo-journalist for both french and international magazines, spending much of his time traveling in South East Asia, Central and South America.
From 2001, Ambroise has essentially devoted his time to landscape photography and started a 5 year project witnessing the changes happening in Beijing before hosting the Olympics.
In 2006 Ambroise Tézenas gained international recognition through his first book, Beijing, Theatre of the People, which won the European Publisher’s Award for Photography. Published in seven languages, this project was exhibited at many venues in Europe and Asia, including the Kunsthal Museum in Rotterdam and the Arles Photography Festival in France.
Regularly awarded, Ambroise won the Nikon Story Teller Award in 2009 for his photographs of Cuba commissioned by the New York Times Magazine and the Ooshot Award in 2018 among others. His work is part of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France collection and the Musée d'Art Moderne de la vile de Paris.
Photographer and author, his latest book, I Was here (Dewi Lewis Publishing 2014), captures though landscape photography people’s increasing interest in visiting places linked to death and destruction.
His work features regularly in major international publications, including The New York Times Magazine, AD Magazine, Vanity Fair or W Magazine.
www.ambroisetezenas.com
Born in Paris in 1972, Ambroise Tézenas graduated from the School of Applied Arts in Vevey, Switzerland, in 1994. Based first in London and then in Paris, he worked as a photojournalist for French and international media, traveling extensively throughout Southeast Asia, Central America, and South America.
Beginning in 2001, he chose to devote himself to landscape photography and began a long-term project on the city of Beijing, which was undergoing rapid transformation in the run-up to the 2008 Olympic Games.
His book Beijing: Theater of the People received the Leica European Publishers Award for Photography in 2006 and brought him international recognition. Translated into seven languages, this project has been exhibited numerous times in Europe and Asia, notably at the Rencontres d’Arles and the Kunsthal Museum in Rotterdam.
His work has been recognized with numerous awards: in 2009, he received the Nikon Storyteller Award at the PDN Photo Annual (USA) for his photographs of Cuba — a photo essay commissioned by The New York Times Magazine — and the Ohshot Award in 2018.
Ambroise Tézenas’s work is part of the public collections of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, and the Musée Français de la Photographie in Bièvres.
A photographer and author, his latest monograph, I Was Here: Tourism of Desolation, which explores the growing interest in sites of tragedy in the context of the contemporary world, was published in 2014 as a French-English co-publication by Actes Sud and Dewi Lewis Publishing.
His work is regularly published in the international press, including The New York Times, AD Magazine, Vanity Fair, and W Magazine, and appears in several anthologies on the European landscape.
www.ambroisetezenas.com
I WAS HERE
Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2014
Designed by Julie Chazelle
Hardback, 200 pages, 92 colour plates. 300mm x 245mm
ISBN: 978-1-907893-58-2
Design par Julie Chazelle
Préface de J. J. Lennon
200 pages, 92 photographies
300mm x 245mm
ISBN 978-2-330-03676-8
Design par Julie Chazelle
Préface de J. J. Lennon
200 pages, 92 photographies
300mm x 245mm
ISBN 978-2-330-03676-8
