Quentin Chamard-Bois is a French visual artist and photographer based in Paris. Photography became a part of his life very early — at just 6 years old, he asked for a disposable camera to document animals at the zoo. Although his grandfather was a photographer, Quentin’s first passion was video: by age 11 he was filming his friends skateboarding, a passion that evolved into street photography and documentary work.

​

At 20, while on assignment in Mexico, his photographs were exhibited publicly for the first time thanks to his friend Luis Buitron. The positive reception to his street work led him to further explore Mexican daily life. He soon merged this documentary impulse with more abstract forms of expression, experimenting with light art and atmospheric imagery. In 2009, now based in Guadalajara, he became an assistant to photographer Cuitlahuac Correa and exhibited alongside artists from the MOMA. After returning to France in 2011, he refined his technical skills and built a successful career as a lighting director in fashion photography.

​

In 2017, he won the televised Phototalent Academy contest (Paris Première / PHOTO Magazine), affirming his commitment to photography as both craft and concept. In 2019, he reconnected with abstraction, first through painting, then by blending silver-based photographic processes with multiple exposures — allowing painted forms, fabrics, and light to merge and disorient the eye.

​

His signature technique involves layering images through multiple exposure, capturing paintings, textiles, and filters in motion — often animated by wind or light. These images are difficult to classify: are they photographs or paintings? That ambiguity is essential. Quentin uses it to disarm logic and invite emotional presence. His work is an exercise in lâcher-prise — release.

​

This search culminated in the launch of the 333 Project in 2023: a public art initiative in which signed and numbered works are abandoned in public spaces, unframed and unguarded. Each piece includes a QR code, inviting the viewer to answer one essential question: “What did you feel?”

​

Through this poetic gesture, Quentin invites viewers to become co-authors. His work now expands across cities and continents, transforming urban spaces into fields of vulnerability, generosity, and connection.