Born in 1974 in France, Gaël Pollin studied in Arles (Southern France) at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie.

Since 2002, Gaël Pollin has combined his photographic activity with archaeological research in Egypt, where he has been working and living.

During these years of practice, the author has built up a corpus of extraordinary images, playing on the connivance between photography and document. His work is generally based on the frontal schematic composition, common for the documentary style, to construct his images. Objects, places or people are presented in a representative way, in order for greater objectivity. Paradoxically, despite this descriptive approach, it is difficult to name the subject of these photographs due to their abstract nature.

The author exploits the different possibilities of the photographic medium, from the shooting to the retrieval of archive images. Playing with the juxtaposition and superimposition of images constantly provokes ruptures in the subject’s levels of apprehension. 

His intention is to propose a non-directive, non-reducing image that amplifies the space of intervention rather than closing it. A frame that does not condense the real, but makes it infinitely superimposed or stackable.