Gaël Turine (b. 1972) is based in Paris and Brussels. He spent a very
formative year, at the age of 8, in the Comoros Islands (Indian Ocean). His
father, a novelist and documentary radio producer, was teaching French and his
mother was writing about documentary film projects. Though his brother and
himself missed school, living with local people left Gaël with an abiding
curiosity about the nature of societies beyond his own.
After secondary studies back in Belgium, Gaël left for 6 months to
Madagascar, where he had his first photographic experience. When he returned
home he was inspired to take photography studies. During those three years,
Gaël got assignments (Angola, Afghanistan, Eritrea) for NGO’s in order to have
social and humanitarian stories to show to his teachers.
Just after he got his degree in photography in 1997, Gaël began the
personal project "Aveuglément" (Blindly) photographing the
cooperatives for the blind in West Africa, which later became a book
"AVEUGLEMENT" in the Photo Poche series edited by Robert Delpire
2001. The serie has been exhibited in 5 European capitals and awarded
twice. In the same year, after the fall
of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, he got several assignments to make the
"Being 20 in Kabul" book project, published in 2003 ("Avoir 20
ans à Kaboul", Alternatives editions, Paris). The exhibition travelled in
different European places.
In 1998 Gaël received a grant from a private Belgian foundation to work
in Eritrea, travelling to that East African nation four times to work within
two years. In 2004, he received the first grant given by the Aftermath Grant
Project (USA), which afforded him three more trips to Eritrea and the
completion of his project. The body of work has been shown as an exhibition in
2007 Visa Pour l’Image edition.
In 2006, Gaël was the recipient of the Golden Clover award, Belgium, to
complete his project on the route of the Voodoo cult, from its African origins
to Haiti and the United States. The whole project is coming out late 2010 with
a book and an exhibition.
In 2009, the three years project "Aujourd’hui c’est demain"
("Today is tomorrow"), photographing 25 people cured from cancers,
has been published in a book by Delpire Editeur and shown in galleries in
Brussels and Paris.
Among others, assignments or personal stories have been published in the
US, European and a few Asian magazines like Figaro magazine, Paris Match,
Libération, l’Express, Le Monde, De Morgen, Marie Claire, Time, Der Spiegel,
Gazeta Magazine, New York Times, Grands Reportages, De Volkskrant Sunday
Magazine, Knack magazine, Grande travel magazine, XXI magazine, Suomen Kuvalehti magazine, La
Republica magazine, Io Donna, DU magazin, XXI, Adbusters, featured in Leica
World magazine, Photo, Photographers International,…
Gaël was involved into group photographic projects with international
photographers for collective books and exhibitions.
Gaël Turine is a member of the VU’ photo agency.
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All images © Gaël Turine /Agence VU'
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