Born in Paris in 1947, Gilles Perrin has a master in photography. Since 1972 he has worked as an author photographer specialist in large format (4x5”, 8x10”) and in panorama and panoscopic cameras. Until 2005 he taught photography at université Paris viii for over 20 years and at école de l’Image des Gobelins in Paris and at the Ensp in Arles. He now organizes workshops for small groups.

Residencies

Comparecencias, 2013, Centro de las artes, San Luis Potosi, Mexico
The Josef and Ani Albers foundation, 2012, Connecticut, USA
Detroit, 2012, for Michigan State University Museum, Michigan, USA
Traditional farmers, 2009, The Center for Creative Photography, Jyväskylä, Finland
Urban portraits, 2008, Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, France
People of the sea, 2007-2008, Sirius Arts Center, Cobh Co. Cork, Ireland
Immigration in Limousin, 2004, FranceVielle-Aure,
Portrait of a village, 2000 France,
Panorama pictures of China, 1999-2000, Shanghai, Beijing
Wandering without title, memory of the coal mine, 1990, France,

Workshops
Methodology for the elaboration and construction of an author’s photographic project
Practice of large format cameras
Theory and methodology of the use of a large format camera
History of photography
Lighting in studio and outdoor
Gelatin silver printing
2005-2016, studio, Paris, France
2010-2011, Ensp, Arles, France
2006-2009, école de l’image des Gobelins, Paris, France
1985-2005, université Paris-viii, France