About Cuong
Bio & CV
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.
Contact
+33 (0)6 16 01 19 68 > altercuong@yahoo.fr
Represented by Agence Caroline Berton
+33 (0)6 09 12 53 94 > agence@carolineberton.com
Distributed by Studio Hans Lucas.
Member of the french collective Inusité
Awards / Fellowship
Main Exhibitions
& Residences
Phone & Location
Laureate Gomma Grant
USA- 2025
Shortlist RPBB
Boulogne Billancourt - 2025
Finalist Sedat Pekanatti Festival Grant
Turkey - 2024
Shortlisted Herez corpo Prize
France - 2024
Grant of the French Institute : MIRA system
for the realization of a photographic work about the city of Wilson, NC (USA)
France - June 2024
Shortlisted Mentor Prize
Paris & Bordeaux - 2024
Grant of the CRC Nantes
Project "Almost a song, a whisper".
France - 2023
Grant of the InSeine Saint Denis / MC93
for the project about the territory of Seine St Denis "Un peu d'eau claire et des peupliers à perte de vue"
Grant of the BNF & Ministery of Culture
Project "The field of stars or the stirred land - Part. 2"
In the framework of the Great Photographic Commission : radioscopy of France under the health crisis
France - 2022
Grand of the CNAP
Project "The field of stars or the stirred land - Part. 1"
France - 2021
Shortlisted Mentor Prize
Corbeil Essonne - 2023
& 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
Sur la brûme qui manque à nos jours
Association Cutlurelle du Prieuré & Valimage, Saint-Benoît-du-Sault
18 .10.2025 > 29.11.2025
Dans l'épaisseur fragile des neuf croix
Center of Art and Photography Lumiere d'Encre (CAPLE), Cerêt.
26.10.2024 > 11.01.2025
Sur la brûme qui manque à nos jours
Valimage, Tavers & Mareau-aux-prés
AD : Carine Dolek
21 .09.2024 > 20.10.2024
Un peu d'eau claire et des peupliers à perte de vue
Collective Exhib /19M/La Parcelle, Aubervilliers
AD : Collectif Fetart
25 .04.2024 > 27.10.2024
Standing on the beach, staring at the sea
Collective exhibition
Biennale de la Photographie, Authiou.
10.08.2024 > 18.08.2024
Collective exhibition / BNF, Paris
In the framework of the Great Photographic Commission : radioscopy of France under the health crisis
Extracts of the project "The field of stars or the stirred land - Part. 2"
19.03.2024 > 23.06.2024
Creative residency
Center of Art and Photography Lumiere d'Encre (CAPLE), Cerêt.
Jan > May 2024
Standing on the beach, staring at the sea
Solo exhibition / CAPLE, Cérêt.
20.01.2024 > 09.03.2024
Presqu'un chant, un chuchotement...
Solo Exhibition / Laboratoires Vivants, Nantes.
09.01.2024 > 21.02.2024
Valimage, Tavers.
Oct 2023 > Jan 2024
Prayer for lovers with broken hands
Festival International de la Photographie
Pinyao (China)
19.09.2023 > 25.09.2023
Standing on the beach, staring at the sea
Collective exhibition / Association Florence
Espace Commines, Paris.
23.11.2023 > 26.11.2023
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)
02.06.2023 > 31.07.2023
Un peu d'au claire et des peupliers à perte de vue
Solo Exhibition / MC93, Bobigny.
07.12.2022 > 02.04.2023
Festival Les Mesnographies, Mesnuls.
11.09.21 > 03.10.2021
Standing on the beach, staring at the sea
Photodoc Documentary Photography Fair
Halle des Blancs Manteaux, Paris.
2020
Standing on the beach, staring at the sea
Festival Planche(s) Contact
Creative Residency, Deauville.
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.
2017 Poster here
Days run like wild horses in the hills
Photographic meetings of the 10th
Atelier Cosy Pixel, Paris.
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
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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
Mob. +33 6 16 01 19 68
Based in Paris, France
Photographe auteur EI
Membre de la Scam
Portfolio
Villa Albertine 2026