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Gilles Coulon

Gilles Coulon, born in 1966 in Nogent-sur-Marne, lives and works in Paris. Since 1996 he has been a member of the photographic group Tendance Floue. In 1997 he won a first prize in the “Daily Life” category of the World Press Award for his work with the nomadic Fulani people. In 1999 he published Avoir 20 ans à Bamako, in 2000 Delta was published, Coulon’s series of landscapes and scenes of daily life around the Niger River. That same year, at the request of France’s Minister of Culture, he created a series of photographs of French youth titled Les samedis soirs.