Hideyuki Ishibashi

Hideyuki Ishibashi (born in 1986 in Kobe, Japan) lives and works in Lille, France, where he has been based since 2011. 

Trained in photography at Nihon University in Tokyo, then at Le Fresnoy —National Studio of Contemporary Arts, he has developed an organic photographic practice that explores the relationships between photography, culture, and nature, examining how images shape our perception of reality in the digital age.

His approach unfolds through a constant dialogue between historical techniques and contemporary tools. By combining traditional photographic processes, archival manipulations, and material experiments, he creates images where landscape, memory, and time converge—situated between material presence and imagination. His work is deeply rooted in the history and philosophical foundations of photography, as well as in the medium’s ability to connect the past and the present.

Her recent research focuses on post-industrial and riverine environments, using ash, plant pigments, and environmental samples to reveal the silent processes of regeneration, geological time, and living metamorphosis. Through forms that are often minimalist and contemplative, her practice seeks to reactivate a sensitive and temporal relationship with the image amid a context of visual acceleration.

His work has been featured in international exhibitions in France, Japan, South Korea, Germany, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom, at institutions such as the Bibliothèque nationale de France, CRP/, Landskrona Foto, and the Institut pour la photographie. He has also participated in international fairs such as Paris Photo, Photo Basel, Photo London, and Unseen Amsterdam.

His works are included in several public and private collections, notably those of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the CRP/, the Pictet Collection, the Frédéric de Goldschmidt Collection, the Amana Collection, the Landskrona Museum, the OBC Neuflize Collection, and KPMG Meijburg & Co.

His work is represented by IBASHO in Antwerp and Bigaignon in Paris.