Antoine Lecharny is a French photographer and visual artist, born in 1995. At the age of twenty, he travelled to Transylvania to photograph and share the lives of Roma families living in the slums of Deva. Alongside them, he sought to capture the bonds that unite these families and their relationship to an often-hostile environment. This work, which earned him an award in the Paris Match Student Photojournalism Grand Prize, was exhibited at the Hôtel de Ville in Paris in 2019.
Over time, Antoine Lecharny began to approach photography differently, moving away from a purely documentary intention while continuing to pay close attention to the uniqueness of people and the places they inhabit.
His work, which has been exhibited and awarded both in France and internationally (including the Jury Prize at the Planches Contact Festival, the Audience Award at Les Boutographies, and the Paris Match Prize), is held in several public and private collections, including that of Marin Karmitz. A recipient of the Audi Talents Award alongside artist Henri Frachon, he presented the sculptural project Disegno astratto at the Palais de Tokyo in 2021. The Sit Down gallery first collaborated with the artist in 2023, presenting his debut solo exhibition in Paris, titled Côté fenêtre. From 2022 to 2024, Antoine Lecharny was represented by Renate Gallois-Montbrun.
In 2025, he received the Gomma Grant B&W Prize for his long-term project devoted to the memory of mass shootings of Jews in Eastern Europe and the Baltic states during World War II. This project, titled Sous terre (Underground), will be published by Éditions d’une rive à l’autre in November 2025. That same year, he was selected as one of the three artists supported by Sarah Moon as part of the Grand Prize of the Académie des Beaux-Arts.
