Stéphane de Bourgies – Exhibition Catalogue ‘Solo Show’ | 12 – 29 March, 2026

Exhibition catalogue for ‘Solo Show’ that runs from 12 to March 29, 2026 at the gallery.

The exhibition dedicated to photographer Stéphane de Bourgies invites us into the world of a portraitist who has made the human gaze the heart of his work.

For over four decades, he has photographed those who shape our collective imagination: artists, writers, actors, thinkers, and public figures. In his images, celebrity often fades behind a more intimate presence. Stéphane de Bourgies is less concerned with freezing an official image than with capturing a moment of truth, a tension, a sometimes imperceptible fragility.
Stéphane de Bourgies’ work is distinguished by its great formal restraint. The settings disappear, the compositions are simplified, and light becomes a precise tool that sculpts faces and reveals gazes. In this deliberately uncluttered space, the subject appears with a particular intensity, almost timeless.

Each photograph then becomes an encounter. Facing the lens, the photographed personalities are no longer merely icons: they become individuals, captured in a suspended moment. The neutral background, the uncluttered composition, and the intensity of the gaze focus all attention on what is essential: the human presence.

Through this exhibition, Stéphane de Bourgies reminds us that the portrait, whether human or plant, is first and foremost a silent dialogue between the photographer and their subject—and, by extension, between the image and the viewer.