Clement Chapillon is a photographer based in the south of France. He has published in several media: Le Monde, l’Obs Arte New York Times, British Journal of photography, Liberation, revue Epic… His work explores the territories, their people, and the links that unite them through a personal style borrowed from "poetic realism". His narratives, at the border between the real and the imaginary, draw from current testimonies or old writings to document the geographical and mental space of places.
He made his first long-term documentary in Israel/Palestine entitled "Promise me a Land" to explore the various dimensions of the promised land. The series was published in an eponymous book by Kehrer Verlag and edited in many media (L'obs, Le Monde, Libération, Arte,...), won the Leica prize in Arles in 2017, and was exhibited in several institutions from Paris to Jerusalem (104, Tbilisi, MAC, Willy Brandt Center, CNAM...).
Chapillon then co-founded the documentary production studio "Unforeseen" based in the Carré Bisson in Paris Belleville. He has collaborated with several institutions such as Nespresso, SNCF, CNAM, California state and La Belle-Iloise on large-scale commissions.
Since late 2018, he has been questioning the notion of insularity by documenting the duality, isolation, and memory of an island in the Aegean Sea. This series, "Les rochers fauves", received the Fondation des Treilles prize in 2019, will soon be published in a book by Dunes Éditions and exhibited at Polka in Paris in late May 2022.
Please, contact me by email for any specific request: clementchapillon@gmail.com