Hugo Chazot-Ranquet, analog photographer and darkroom printmaker

Hugo Chazot Ranquet

The print is not a copy of the image, it is its birth.

The language

Hugo Chazot-Ranquet is a photographer. He works the image as matter, through film and the darkroom, where a photograph is not taken but built from light, chemistry and time.

Years of analog practice have produced a language of his own. Grain becomes structure. The figure dissolves into form. Every decision is made by hand, on the paper.

The print is the end of that language, not a copy of the image but the moment it comes into being. The same eye, the same hand, run through everything that follows.

A matted black and white print lying on a wood floor, showing a man in a suit and striped tie whose face is blurred into pale streaks of motion, features unrecognizable

Silver gelatin print.

Fine Art

A narrow sliver of a face glimpsed through fluted glass, one hand gripping the edge of the glass panel, the rest of the body dissolving into striped bands A figure with a downward gaze and closed eyes, one hand raised to the jaw, an earring catching the light against a pale background A face behind fluted glass framed by a raised hand above and a second hand pressed flat at the chest, the features breaking into vertical striped bands

Mackie Lines

Studio. The figure dissolves into matter.
Three men sit on a patterned rug in a stone doorway playing chess, one watching the camera A man in a peaked cap sits on a bench reading a folded newspaper, glancing toward the camera A man carries an enormous bundle strapped to his back and forehead with a rope, walking down a street

Human Trajectories

Street. Analog. The origin of the eye.
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The process, made visible

►studio
►darkroom
►print

Video shows the making. The print is the work.

Commercial

Alongside the fine art practice, Hugo Chazot-Ranquet takes on portrait, fashion and beauty commissions through Studio HCR. Different briefs, the same standards.

See commercial work