François-Xavier Gbré is a photographer who lives and works between La Rochelle, France, and Abidjan, Ivory Coast. In touch with time and geography, his work summons the language of architecture as a witness to memory and social change. From colonial remains to landscapes redefined by current events, Gbré explores territories and revisits history. This constant dialogue with his environment leads him to use different scales and modes of exhibition, whether in the presentation of meticulous installations, linked to a real investigation of the territory, or in the use of architecture itself to make photography resonate in a physical relationship with the spectator or the public space. Gbré’s works can be found in the collections of the Centre Pompidou in Paris, The Museum of Modern Art and The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., and the Tate Modern in London, among numerous other institutions. In 2020, Gbré won the Louis Roederer Foundation Discovery Award at Les Rencontres d’Arles. In 2024, he became the first laureate of the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès’ Latitudes program.