JM SIMOES - My name is Bond

Magnified print created by the artist, dated, signed on the back, and numbered 9/9. Made on Bergger baryta paper 24x30, selenium toned, with white borders, black margin, image size 19.5x29cm.
Careful shipment but possibility of in-person delivery in Paris-Batignolles.

Born in 1964, with a Franco-Portuguese dual culture and living in Paris, JM Simoes has been a photographer for more than thirty years. A marked interest in people initially guided his approach, in the 1990s steering him toward reportage and journalism, as a regular contributor to Journal du Dimanche, then to L’Express, Télérama, and Le Monde.
Over about twenty years, he has returned to analog photography, where darkroom work is an integral part of the final result. This practice led him to discover ancient printing processes and to an almost exclusive use of vintage papers. His work, continually enriched by the production of new series, combines a plastic handling of the old techniques, which—transformed into collages, montages, and sculptures—opens up horizons that were previously unexplored.

He received the Documentary Photography Prize, the Investigation Prize, and the Special Jury Prize at the Scoop Festival. Nominated for the Bayeux War Correspondent Prize and the AFP-Bendrihem Prize for Political Photography, his work is present in several collections and public institutions.
Exhibited at the Chelsea Center for the Arts in New York, at the Abbey of Neumünster in Luxembourg, at the Centre d’art contemporain de Katowice in Poland, at Atelier 340-Muzeum in Brussels, and screened at numerous festivals in France and elsewhere.

He also authored the works “Springstine sur Seine”, “Request”, “A Linha”, “Verni$$age$”, “Bienvenu chez les ch’tis”, “La ville à trois vitesses” (with Jacques Donzelot), “Chiens de la casse”, “La banlieue vue d’ailleurs” (published by CNRS Editions), “Tout doit disparaitre”, “Si Mao m’était compté”, “La puissance du négatif” as well as the entire collection “IN-OUT”.