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Curriculum vitae

May 2025 : solo show at Hengam Gallery in Mashhad, Iran, entitled “Portrait of Iran, 2022”, curated by Jamal Arabzadeh and hosted by Najmeh Amini

February 2025 : solo show at the Iranian Artists’ Forum in Tehran, entitled “Iranian Portraits, 2022”, curated by Jamal Arabzadeh. Mr. Arabzadeh is the director of the Visual Arts Departments of the Art University of Iran, and has also curated several exhibitions at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (TMoCA)

February 2025 : solo show at Ithaque in Paris entitled “From Tehran to Los Angeles”, until March 1st

21st of March 2024 : inauguration of the solo show of Alexandre at Ithaque: “Pourquoi la Grèce?” (“Why Greece?”)

Fall 2023 : group show “Materiality and Immateriality of Photography”, French National Library (BnF), curator: Héloïse Conesa

7th of March 2023 : inauguration of the solo show of the Iranian portraits of Alexandre, exhibited at Assemblée Nationale (the French Parliament). Alexandre was invited by the president of the Assemblée Nationale, Yaël Braun-Pivet, in the context of the International Day for Women’s Rights

November 10th 2022 : inauguration of the Iranian Portraits exhibition at Ithaque Chambre Noire

August 2022 : third trip to Iran (one month)

May 2022 : group show “De Rerum Natura” at Ithaque. With Claude Iverné, inaugural performance of the show was a live printmaking of a 2 by 3 meters tree from an 8x10’’ negative of Claude Iverné directly on a wall with liquid photosensitive emulsion, for a VIP audience of approx. 20 people

Early 2022 : second photography trip in Iran

November 2021 : exhibition “La Lune Noire” at Ithaque

October 2021 : Alexandre is among the 4 finalists of the Prize of the Print in France

September 2021 : PhotoBasel art fair - “150 years of landscape photography”, with Gallery WOS, Zurich

June 2021 : exhibition at Ithaque - “L’Âge de l’Abondance” (the Age of Profusion), a series of contemporary icons on wood

2020 : opens Ithaque, a shared darkroom and exhibition space in the Marais in Paris: www.ithaque-paris.fr

2019 : takes part in the La Passeggiata group show at Galerie Agathe Gaillard, second trip to Chile

2018 : first trip to the Atacama desert in Chile using a Linhof Technika 4x5 inch view camera

2018 : takes part in the Under the Sun group show at Galerie Agathe Gaillard

2018 : work is shortlisted among 13 other photographers to the Niépce Prize at the French National Library. Alexandre was the youngest Niépce prize nominee that year

2017 : one month photography trip in Iran. Also assistant to Claude Iverné, French photographer recipient of the Henri Cartier-Bresson prize in 2015 for his work on Sudan

2017 : takes part in the Tribute to Beauty group exhibition at Galerie Agathe Gaillard

2016 : meets Agathe Gaillard who thereafter exhibits several prints of Alexandre in her gallery. Agathe Gaillard opened the first Parisian gallery committed to photography in 1975, and has exhibited photographers such as Don McCullin, Robert Doisneau, Henri Cartier-Bresson, etc. Also in 2016, travel to Florence

2015 : first film developments, first prints

2014 : 6-week photography travel to China

2013 : begins photography career in a self-taught way. Prior to photography, Alexandre graduated in 2007 from EM Lyon business school in France, with a Master of Science in Management

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