Working through portraiture and long-term artistic research, his practice examines diaspora, memory and belonging while tracing the relationships between people, landscape, ecology and histories of representation.
Developed through more than a decade of independent photographic practice, Thierry’s approach is grounded in sustained encounter, exchange and observation. His photographic formation extends beyond image-making to analogue processes, photobook culture, writing, music and nightlife, informing an understanding of photography not only as representation, but as a social, material and relational practice.
Central to his work is an inquiry into the politics and ethics of portraiture. Thierry considers the photographic encounter as a negotiation between photographer and subject: between visibility and opacity, recognition and projection, self-representation and the histories through which bodies have been classified, aestheticised and made legible. Rather than approaching the portrait as a transparent record of identity, his work asks what an image can disclose, what necessarily remains beyond representation, and whose lives are granted presence within photographic and institutional archives.