Benoit Chailleux

Photographer

Benoît Chailleux was born in France in 1973 and grew up in the suburb of Nantes. He studied architecture since 1992 to 2000 and used photography as an analysis tool and a way to explore urban spaces. He is particularly interested in interstitial spaces made by urban sprawl and gaps between areas dedicated to the mobility. He works in an architecture office but the majority of his subjects are urban spaces built without architect and places built more for cars than for people. His purpose is less to bring to light the aberrations of current urban planning than to reveal an atmosphere. He’s involved in the commonness than the spectacular.