Antoine LECHARNY

Côté fenêtre

This series, created during a residency for the festival Planches Contact, takes us with great sensitivness into moments captured during train trips between Paris and Deauville. The series is composed of both landscapes and portraits, sometimes in black and white, sometimes in color. The ambiguity between closed and open spaces, between unknown faces and familiar scenes, gives a singular rhythm to this wandering.

Antoine Lecharny was awarded with the Jury Prize of Tremplin Jeunes Talents of the festival Planches Contact in 2021.

Works

Exhibitions

2023

Côté fênetre

Galerie SIT DOWN, Paris

03.03.23 – 15.04.23

Biography

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.

Press

2023

Frédérique Chapuis, “Antoine Lecharny – Côté Fenêtre”, Télérama Sortir, 27 février 2023

2022

Frédérique Chapuis, “Antoine Lecharny – Côté Fenêtre”, Télérama Sortir, 27 février 2023

Jean-Baptiste Gauvin, “Planches Contact 2021 : 11e édition du Tremplin Jeunes Talents”, L’œil de la photographie, 3 janvier 2022

Costanza Spina, “Antoine Lecharny remporte le tremplin jeunes talents du festival Planches Contact”, Lense, 2022

Lou Tsatsas, “La dramaturgie de la nuit vue par les Jeunes Talents de Planche(s) Contact”, Fisheye, 2022