Born in Marseille, Antoine d’AGATA left France in 1983 and remained overseas for the next ten years. In New York in 1990, he pursued an interest in photography by taking courses at the International Center of Photography, where his teachers included Larry Clark and Nan Goldin. During his time in New York, in 1991-92, d’AGATA worked as an intern in the editorial department of Magnum, but despite his experiences and training in the US, after his return to France in 1993, he took a four-year break from photography. His first books of photographs, “De Mala Muerte” and “Mala Noche”, were published in 1998, and the following year Galerie Vu began distributing his work. In 2001, he published “Hometown” and won the Niépce Prize for young photographers. He continued to publish regularly: Vortex and Insomnia appeared in 2003, accompanying his exhibition “1001 Nuits”, which opened in Paris in September; “Stigma” was published in 2004, and “Manifeste” in 2005. In 2004 d’Agata joined Magnum Photos and in the same year, shot his first short film, “Le Ventre du Monde” (The World’s Belly); this experiment led to his long feature film Aka Ana, shot in 2006 in Tokyo. Since 2005, without formalisms, Antoine D'AGATA photographs around the world. In 2013, The BAL museum in Paris presented “Antoine d’Agata-Anticorps”, releasing his book “Anticorps” edited by Xavier Barral which received the prize Livre d’Auteur at the Rencontres d’Arles. He is currently preparing a new book together with French philosopher Mehdi Belhaj Kacem.

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