Bagdassarian
I am Alexandre Bagdassarian (b.1992), a French photographer based in Lyon.
After studying at ENSAD (École nationale supérieure des Arts décoratifs de Paris), I lived in Chile, where I produced Les Naufragés (2013–2017) in the Atacama Desert. With La couleur de la grenade (2022–2023), I focused on Armenian youth and on the traces left by thirty years of conflict as well as by the still-living memory of the genocide.
I am currently developing personal work centered on youth, individual narratives, and places of retreat or confinement—whether physical, social, or symbolic. Between 2024 and 2025, I carried out a project entitled Seize et demi at the Meyzieu Juvenile Detention Center, with the support of the ADAGP.
My work has notably been exhibited at the Boutographies Montpellier Photography Festival (2024), at the Le Bleu du Ciel in Lyon (2023 & 2025), at the Écully Cultural Center (2025), and screened for the Maison Blanche Prize in Marseille (2023), at the Bullukian Foundation (2026), and at the 9ph Festival (2022).
I regularly collaborate with the press on reports or portraits (The Guardian, Libération, Le Monde, Mediapart…), as well as with institutions (Interpol, Fondation Mérieux, Aspen, United Nations Office at Geneva…) and NGOs (the Red Cross, Greenpeace…).
Committed to collective work, I also take part in artistic and cultural education projects. Since 2024, I have been a part-time lecturer in the Master’s program in New Journalistic Practices at the University of Lyon II.
Contact
email - alexandrebagdassarian@gmail.com
phone - +33(0)699257658
instagram - @alexandrebagdassarian