Guillaume Collignon

Guillaume Collignon (1985, Live and work in Lausanne) graduated a bachelor’s degree in photography from the École cantonale d’art de Lausanne (ECAL) Switzerland in 2010, followed by a master’s degree in art direction and photography in 2012.

His works and research are mainly focused to landscapes / spaces and the human interaction with it (Déambulations environnantes, Elements Alpins, Roadside Valleys…), as well as research on the photographic medium itself.
He’s still working exclusively on analog film with medium and large-format cameras.

For informations or to say hello: studio@guillaumecollignon.com
instagram: @guillaume.collignon

Member of:
NEAR, swiss association for contemporary photography.
ACTWALL, The first platform to support photographic acquisition in Switzerland.

Commissioned / Commercial projects

Architecture and others applied photographic projects commissioned, all done with in analog film from medium-format to 8x10 inches can be seen here.
A more complete portflio is available on request, please contact me for further informations.

Exhibitions

Ce qui nous regarde encore, Actwall, Galerie Polomarco Geneva, sept. 2025 to Jan. 2026
Du Nil au Léman, regards comtemporains, Musée de Pully et Near, march 2023
Biennale de la photographie de Mulhouse, This is the end, France, june–oct 2020
Near x LabElysée, Artificial Intersections, musée de l’Elysée, Switzerland, jan–may 2020
Near / stadio, Vevey Images, Vevey, Switzerland, august 2018
Near website launch, Rencontres photo d’Arles, France, july 2018
Cold / war studies, Galerie contre-contre, St Maurice, Switzerland, sept–oct. 2017
Carte blanche Near, Biennale photographique de Mulhouse, France, june 2016
Là-Haut, La Graineterie, centre d’art de la ville de Houilles, France, jan–feb. 2016
MTAG Group Show, Le Huit, Paris, France, november 2014
Hike, Hack, Hic et Nunc, XPO gallery, Paris, France, oct-nov. 2014
Les chasseurs de fantômes, Espace Verney-Carron, Lyon, France, sept–nov. 2014
Docks art Fair, Lyon, sept. 2014, represented by espace Verney-Carron
59e salon de Montrouge, France, april–may 2014
La vitrine 3, Dreier + Frenzel Architecture, Lausanne, Switzerland, oct–nov. 2013
Exposition des diplômes, écal, Renens, Switzerland, july 2012
Planche(s) Contact, festival de photographie de Deauville, France, oct–nov. 2010
Exposition des diplômes, écal, Renens, Switzerland, july 2010

Online exhibitions and interviews

Atlas of Place, jan. 2020
Seen magazine, sept. 2020

Publications

Les Others, Volume 14, Paradoxes - 2021
Les Others, Hors-Série 10 ans - 2021
BSA-FAS - Fédération des architectes suisses, Rapport Annuel 2021
59e salon de Montrouge, catalogue, 2014
Adventice Magazine Issue 02, Adventice Editions, Lausanne, 2013
On Tour - Tour de Romandie et Tour de Suisse 2010, Infolio 2011

Collections

Ekimetrics art collection, Paris
Ville de Deauville
Private collectors

Crédits

Design and developement: Gaëtan Thirion
Typography: Europa by Charly Derouault
Art direction: Guillaume Collignon

© Guillaume Collignon 2025

Une visite dans une grotte de glace qui se transforme en pélerinage quasi-annuel, un glacier qui devient malgré lui une «archive», se transfigurant chaque année, laissant la place à un lac issu de lui-même qui le dévore petit à petit.
Un travail sur l’archive et le medium photographique de ce monument naturel, photographié dès le milieu du XIXe siècle, sans routes, hotels ou touristes environnants.
Une documentation sur quelque chose, quelqu’un, qui ne sera plus là dans quelques années…

A visit to an ice cave that has become an almost annual pilgrimage, a glacier that has unintentionally turned into an “archive,” changing each year and giving way to a lake formed from its own mass, gradually eroding it.
This work focuses on the photographic medium and archive of this natural landmark, documented since the mid-19th century, at a time when there were no roads, hotels, or tourists nearby.
It is a record of something — or someone — that will no longer exist in a few years.

20/24 | Rhonegletscher 1862-2024, Switzerland, 2024

2/24 | The Rhone Glacier - Francis Frith, Switzerland, 1862

4/24 | Rhonegletscher - extract II, Switzerland, 2024

5/24 | Rhonegletscher I, Switzerland, 2008

6/24 | Rhonegletscher II, Switzerland, 2010

22/24 | Rhonegletscher III, Switzerland, 2014

7/24 | Rhonegletscher IV, Switzerland, 2015

24/24 | Rhonegletscher IV - extract, Switzerland, 2015

8/24 | Rhonegletsche V, Switzerland, 2016

9/24 | Rhonegletscher VI, Switzerland, 2018

10/24 | Rhonegletscher VII, Switzerland, 2019

11/24 | Rhonegletscher VIII, Switzerland, 2020

12/24 | Rhonegletscher IX, Switzerland, 2021

13/24 | Rhonegletscher X, Switzerland, 2022

14/24 | Rhonegletscher XI, Switzerland, 2023

23/24 | Rhonegletscher XII - neue eisgrotte, Switzwerland, 2025

17/24 | Rhonegletscher eisgrotte, Switzerland, 2023

21/24 | Rhonegletscher - artefact II, Switzerland, 2020

19/24 | 12 layers of Rhonegletscher, Switzerland

15/24 | Autoportrait I - Gletsch, Switzerland, 2023

1/24 | Rhonegletscher Belvédère, Switzerland, 2019

3/24 | Rhonegletscher eisgrotte VI, Switzerland, 2023

18/24 | Rhonegletscher 1917, Switzerland, 1917

16/24 | Belvedere - archive I, Switzerland, 1936