François-Xavier Gbré is a photographer who lives and works between La Rochelle, France, and Abidjan, Ivory Coast. For the past 15 years, Gbré has investigated the built environment across West Africa as an evolving record of economic development, social change, and memory. From the dilapidated remnants of colonial-era institutions to the monuments of post-independence urban development, Gbré’s photographs frame the region’s architectural heritage as part of its contemporary reality, revealing how the legacies of the past meet in the present. Gbré’s works can be found in the collections of the Centre Pompidou, The Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Tate Modern, among numerous other institutions. In 2020, Gbré won the Louis Roederer Foundation Discovery Award at Les Rencontres d’Arles. He was the inaugural laureate of the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès’ Latitudes program.