Guillaume Collignon

Guillaume Collignon graduated a bachelor’s degree in photography from the École cantonale d’art de Lausanne (ECAL) Switzerland in 2010, followed by a master’s degree in art direction and photography in 2012.

His works and research are mainly focused to landscape / architecture / spaces and the human interaction with it (déambulations environnantes and éléments alpins), an exploration of the photographic medium through long exposures in response to the increasingly rapid pace in alpine peaks climb (Speed), the physical, temporal and historical superposition of communication routes and industrial infrastructures in the alpine valleys (Roadside valleys)

For informations, print inquiries or to say hello: g.collignon@gmx.ch
instagram: @guillaume.collignon

Member of NEAR, swiss association for contemporary photography.

Prints are available to sell, all printed on chromogenic process
(lambda print on RA-4 paper).
Please contact me for more informations

Commissioned / Commercial projects

Architecture and others applied photographic projects commissioned, all done with in analog film from medium-format to 8x10 inches can be seen here.
A more complete portflio is available on request, please contact me for further informations.

Exhibitions

Du Nil au Léman, regards comtemporains, Musée de Pully et Near, march 2023
Biennale de la photographie de Mulhouse, This is the end, France, june–oct 2020
Near x LabElysée, Artificial Intersections, musée de l’Elysée, Switzerland, jan–may 2020
Near / stadio, Vevey Images, Vevey, Switzerland, august 2018
Near website launch, Rencontres photo d’Arles, France, july 2018
Cold / war studies, Galerie contre-contre, St Maurice, Switzerland, sept–oct. 2017
Carte blanche Near, Biennale photographique de Mulhouse, France, june 2016
Là-Haut, La Graineterie, centre d’art de la ville de Houilles, France, jan–feb. 2016
MTAG Group Show, Le Huit, Paris, France, november 2014
Hike, Hack, Hic et Nunc, XPO gallery, Paris, France, oct-nov. 2014
Les chasseurs de fantômes, Espace Verney-Carron, Lyon, France, sept–nov. 2014
Docks art Fair, Lyon, sept. 2014, represented by espace Verney-Carron
59e salon de Montrouge, France, april–may 2014
La vitrine 3, Dreier + Frenzel Architecture, Lausanne, Switzerland, oct–nov. 2013
Exposition des diplômes, écal, Renens, Switzerland, july 2012
Planche(s) Contact, festival de photographie de Deauville, France, oct–nov. 2010
Exposition des diplômes, écal, Renens, Switzerland, july 2010

Online exhibitions and interviews

Atlas of Place, jan. 2020
Seen magazine, sept. 2020

Publications

Les Others, Volume 14, Paradoxes
Les Others, Hors-Série 10 ans
BSA-FAS - Fédération des architectes suisses, Rapport Annuel 2021

Collections

Ekimetrics art collection, Paris
Ville de Deauville
Private collectors

Crédits

Design and developement: Gaëtan Thirion
Typography: Europa by Charly Derouault
Art direction: Guillaume Collignon

© Guillaume Collignon 2025

Le Speed climbing est une variante rapide et extrême de l’alpinisme classique, menée en autre par les suisses Ueli Steck, Dani Arnold ou l’espagnol Kilian Jornet. Ici point d’éqiuipe, de cordées ou de matériel lourd. Juste une course contre la montre en solitaire contre la montagne. Le travail photographique s’est focalisé sur les trois faces nord mythiques et les plus difficiles des Alpes: l’Eiger, le Cervin et les Grandes Jorasses. En exposant la pellicule du même temps que les ascensions, le temps court d’exposition usuel de la photographie se transforme en un temps extrêmement long, ou toute forme de mouvement devient gazeux ou invisible. Une inversion temporelle ou les nouveaux records d’ascensions continuellement améliorés transforment la photographie en un acte lent et contemplatif.

Speed climbing is a fast and extreme variant of classic mountaineering leaded by new breeds of climbers like Ueli Steck, Dani Arnold or Kilian Jornet. Here there is no team, ropes or heavy equipment. Just a single-handed race against the clock and the mountain. The photographic work focused on the three mythical and most difficult northern faces of the Alps: Eiger, Matterhorn and Grandes Jorasses. By exposing the film as long as the ascents, the usual short exposure time of photography becomes an extremely long time, where any form of movement becomes gaseous or invisible. A temporal inversion when new and continuously improved ascent records transform photography into a contemplative and slow act.

1/6 | Dani Arnold, 2015.04.22, 1h 46min, Switzerland, 2017

2/6 | Dani Arnold, 2015.04.22, 1h 46min - extract 3, Switzerland, 2017

3/6 | Ueli Steck, 2015.11.17, 2h 22min 50s, Switzerland, 2017

4/6 | Ueli Steck, 2015.11.17, 2h 22min 50s - extract 2, Switzerland, 2017

5/6 | Ueli Steck, 2008.12.28, 2h 21min 26s, France, 2017

6/6 | Ueli Steck, 2008.12.28, 2h 21min 26s - extract 3, France, 2017