Christophe Agou (1969 – September 2015) was a French documentary photographer and street photographer who lived in New York City. [1] His work has been published in books and is held in public collections. He was a member of the In-Public street photography collective.

Born in 1969 in Montbrison, a small town at the foot of the Forez Hills in the Loire department, France, Christophe Agou left France in 1992 and settled in New York.

Born in 1969 in Montbrison, a small town at the foot of the Forez hills, in the Loire Department, France, Christophe Agou left France in 1992 and settled in New York. This early voluntary exile, an urge to immerse himself in a completely different world, is typical of the work that Christophe Agou has been developing over the last twenty years ...

Textes originaux de Christophe Agou & JohnBerger. Poèmes de Daniel de Bruycker. Edition Limitée à 700 exemplaires / Livre relié / 60 duotones / 112 pages / 27.5 x 24.5 cm / Français-Anglais.

Dec 22, 2015 · Christophe Agou, the acclaimed French-American photographer, filmmaker, and artist who brilliantly documented the subways of New York and the countrysides of France with his Leicas,...

It is to this province of France with its intense landscape, these humble fortunes, these joys and these human hardships, that I went to become intoxicated by the deafening silences of this world. Christophe Agou.

Apr 22, 2014 · Christophe Agou is a street photographer from France, currently based in New York. He is a part of In-Public, and his published works include "Life Below: The New York Subway" and his newest book: "LES FAITS SECONDAIRES” ( SECONDARY FACTS).

Oct 1, 2019 · Christophe Agou (1969 – 2015) was a French photographer who lived in New York and, like Walker Evans, took a series of images of the New York subway – Life Below (Agou, 2004). He said ‘Trust your heart and open your eyes’ and ‘There is a certain honesty underground, a certain truth.

After eight years, this resulted in Facing silence, which is far from just a documentary about rural life in early twenty-first century France. The farm doors that Christophe Agou enters on our behalf open to reveal the faces of men and women who command our …

With great sensitivity, Christophe Agou records this in monochromatic, intuitive images that seem to transcend reality.