Laurent Weyl
Laurent Weyl (b.1971, France) is an award-winning photographer whose documentary style approach is used to investigate social and environmental themes relating to topics such as urban poverty and climate change. His socio-ethnographic works provide an insight into the functionality of rapidly urbanising environments and the harsh living conditions they create. Laurent is a long-term resident of Vietnam and published the photobook President Hotel in conjunction with his solo exhibition of the same name at MoT+++ in 2016. He joined Paris-based photographer collective Collectif Argos in 2001 and with them published Climates Refugees (2010), a portrait of France titled Gueule d’Hexagone (2012), and Footprints (2015).