Photographer, artist, and designer — born in 2002, lives and works in Paris.
Trained at the Kourtrajmé School (Art & Image section) and at Sorbonne Nouvelle University in Film Studies, Basile Pelletier builds a body of work driven by the desire to tell stories without closing them, to create worlds where ambiguity becomes a language.
His images often emerge from precise staging, yet always leave room for accident, chance, and drift. They seem to unfold just before or after something — a gesture, a revelation, a disappearance. This gentle yet unsettling tension lies at the heart of his practice.
In 2021, Basile Pelletier created the series 2060, presented at Le Centquatre-Paris and at Arthub Gallery in London: an aquatic dystopia about rising waters — a familiar world slowly submerged, where beauty persists within catastrophe. This project marked a first articulation between the real and the poetic.
In 2024, he received the American Vintage Photography Award at the Hyères International Festival of Fashion and Photography for If I Could Make the World as Pure and Strange as What I See, a series that encapsulates the essence of his approach: an exploration of the power of looking, of the strangeness hidden in everyday gestures, and of the possibility of an open narrative — where photography does not conclude, but lets the world continue beyond the frame.
This award led him to create, in 2025 in Taiwan, Un temps pour vivre (A Time to Live), a series inspired by the cinema of Edward Yang and Hou Hsiao-Hsien, capturing a threshold — that of a youth suspended between childhood and adulthood.
Since 2019, Basile has co-directed the brand and collective Humanitas, founded with Antoine Markovic. Conceived as a narrative extension of his visual work, Humanitas turns clothing into a storytelling instrument: each collection — Venezia Mysteria, Une révolution s’impose, Jimmi, En attendant — unfolds as a fiction in itself.
PRESS & PUBLICATIONS
October 2024 — Article in Marie Claire,