About Cuong
Bio
French photographer. Cuong Lê has a background as a photojournalist as well as a studio light technician.
Now, he's spliting his time between artistic residencies, advertising communication, corporate assignments, and press commissions.
His photographic works are recurrently embodied in the rhythm of an immersive and sensorial walk. They question his own intimacy in connection with a territory, questioning the relationship to time and expectation, notably through the prism of youth or the relationship to nature.
Represented by MD Marie Dathanat
(+33)6 61 95 07 39 > marie.dathanat@gmail.com
Distributed by Studio Hans Lucas.
Awards / Fellowship
Main Exhibitions
& Residences
Phone & Location
Grant of the CRC Nantes
for the realization of a photographic work about the city of Nantes
France - 2023
Grant of the InSeine Saint Denis / MC93
for the realization of a photographic work about the territory of Seine St Denis
Grant of the BNF & Ministery of Culture
In the framework of the Great Photographic Commission : radioscopy of France under the health crisis
France - 2021
Grand of the CNAP
for the realization of the project The field of stars or the stirred earth
France - 2021
Shortlisted Mentor Prize
Standing on the beach, staring at the sea
Paris - 2020
Grand Jury Prize Tremplin Jeunes Talents
& Public Prize
Festival Planche(s) Contact
Standing on the beach, staring at the sea
Deauville - 2019
Aidda Prize for social and documentary photography (shortlisted)
My Uncle
Paris - 2008
Kodak Talent Grant
Coup de coeur Reportage
My Uncle
Paris - 2007
SFR Young Talent Award (shortlisted)
Projection The Modern Life
Maison Européenne de la Photographie
Paris - 2007
Aidda Prize for social and documentary photography (shortlisted)
Jean, portrait of a reintegration
Paris - 2006
Shortlisted for the creative residency Ministry of the army
Paris (75)
Session 2023
Prayer for lovers with broken hands
ACP Gallery at the Eyes On Main Street Festival. Work realized during a residency in February 2023 in Wilson, NC (USA)
Opening on 02.06.2023
Un peu d'au claire et des peupliers à perte de vue
Maison de la Culture MC93 de Bobigny (93)
07.12.2022 > 02.04.2023
Shortlisted for the residency Capsule
Le Champ des Impossibles
Perche en Nocé (61)
Sessions 2022 & 2023
Open the Sun Doors
Festival Les Mesnographies
Mesnuls (78)
11.09.21 > 03.10.2021
Shortlisted for the creative residency
Fondation des Treilles
Tourtour (83)
Sessions 2020 & 2021
Standing on the beach, staring at the sea
Photodoc Documentary Photography Fair
Halle des Blancs Manteaux
2020
Standing on the beach, staring at the sea
Festival Planche(s) Contact
Creative Residency, Deauville (Fr)
Exhibition Galerie Point de Vue
2020
Interview : here Some tearsheets : 1 2 3 4
Je me tire le portrait
Restitution of creation workshops around the portrait with young people in reintegration.
In partnership with the Mission Locale d'Insertion and the novelist Sylvain Patthieu.
Elsa Triolet Media Library, Bobigny (France)
2017 Poster here
Days run like wild horses in the hills
Photographic meetings of the 10th
Atelier Cosy Pixel, Paris (France)
2017
9 degrés (Exposition collective)
French Institute of Prague (Rép. Tch)
2016
Jbilets : une terre lunaire
Cityhall of Paris, ACTICSCE
2013
Renaissance Photography (Expo collective)
Price-Mall galleries, Londres.
2012
My Uncle
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Festival Manifesto (Toulouse)
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Festival MRPF - Projection (Phnom Pen)
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Month of Photo Off, Gallery 12 Cité (Paris)
2010
