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In a line of work he defines as “speculative documentary”, he explores our refusal to accept physical and philosophical limits, and its consequence for the world's habitability. His projects emphasize the sensory experience of the materiality of his subjects and offers a reflection on landscape, bodies, and, through them, our relationship to the places we inhabit.
Three times a Prix Pictet nominee (UK, 2021, 2023, 2025), he won the Fotografia Europea Open Call (IT, 2021), Prix Maison Blanche (FR, 2022) and Prix Dahinden (FR, 2024), among others. He is a grantee of the French National Center for the Arts (Cnap), Journalismfund Europe (BE).
In 2023-2024, he was artist-in-residence at La Capsule and the International College of Photography in Paris
Maxime is a member of Tendance Floue
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studio
Carré Bisson
10 bis rue bisson
75020 Paris, France
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Recent shows
2025 /
October — Solo show, Rencontres Photographiques du 10ème, Paris, FR
July — Duo show, Costières de l’Art, Nîmes, FR
April — Group show, Prix Dahinden, MAC Créteil, FR
March — Solo show, Hangar Gallery, Brussels, BE
July — Duo show, Costières de l’Art, Nîmes, FR
April — Group show, Prix Dahinden, MAC Créteil, FR
March — Solo show, Hangar Gallery, Brussels, BE
2024 /
November — Solo show, Prix Dahinden, Paris Photo, Paris, FR
September — Group show, Prix Dahinden “une autre empreinte”, Paris, FR
June — Solo show, Artist residency, La Capsule, Le Bourget, FR
June — Solo show, Palais de Tokyo (5e édition du Parlement de la Photographie), Paris, FR
June — Solo show, Festival La Gacilly-Baden, AT
April — unRepresented by a ppr o che Paris, FR
2023 /
September — Group show, Prix Dahinden “une autre empreinte”, Paris, FR
June — Solo show, Artist residency, La Capsule, Le Bourget, FR
June — Solo show, Palais de Tokyo (5e édition du Parlement de la Photographie), Paris, FR
June — Solo show, Festival La Gacilly-Baden, AT
April — unRepresented by a ppr o che Paris, FR
2023 /
November — Group show, Lire les lignes du monde, PhotoSaintGermain x Cnap, Paris, FR
November — Solo show, Noorderlicht Festival, Regenerate, Gröningen, NL
October — Group show, Épreuves de la matière, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, FR
October — Solo show, Artist residency, Feux, mégafeux, Quai des Savoirs, Toulouse, FR
October — Solo show, VER/VOIR, Alliance française du Pérou, Chiclayo, PER
September — Solo show, Anticipation Festival, Paris, FR
July — Solo show, Promenades Photographiques, Blois, FR
June — Solo show, Festival La Gacilly Photo, La Gacilly, FR
April — Two solo shows, Itinéraires des Photographes Voyageurs, Bordeaux, FR
2022 /
November — Solo show, Noorderlicht Festival, Regenerate, Gröningen, NL
October — Group show, Épreuves de la matière, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, FR
October — Solo show, Artist residency, Feux, mégafeux, Quai des Savoirs, Toulouse, FR
October — Solo show, VER/VOIR, Alliance française du Pérou, Chiclayo, PER
September — Solo show, Anticipation Festival, Paris, FR
July — Solo show, Promenades Photographiques, Blois, FR
June — Solo show, Festival La Gacilly Photo, La Gacilly, FR
April — Two solo shows, Itinéraires des Photographes Voyageurs, Bordeaux, FR
2022 /
October — Solo show, Prix Maison Blanche, Marseille, FR
September — Group show, inCadaqués, Cadaqués, ES
September — Solo show, Passe-Partout Prize, Galleria 28 San Pietro, Rome, IT
July — Film screening, Nuits de Pierrevert, FR
July — Film screening, Promenades Photographiques de Vendôme, FR
June — Solo show, Fotografia Europea, Reggio Emilia, IT
May — Film screening, ImageSingulières, Sète, FR
2021 /
September — Solo show, Photoclimat Biennale, Paris, FRSeptember — Group show, inCadaqués, Cadaqués, ES
September — Solo show, Passe-Partout Prize, Galleria 28 San Pietro, Rome, IT
July — Film screening, Nuits de Pierrevert, FR
July — Film screening, Promenades Photographiques de Vendôme, FR
June — Solo show, Fotografia Europea, Reggio Emilia, IT
May — Film screening, ImageSingulières, Sète, FR
2021 /
May — Solo show, Galerie DUREV, Paris, FR
Awards & Grants
2025 /
Prix Pictet theme « Storm » – Nomination, UK
2024 /
Prix Pictet theme « Storm » – Nomination, UK
2024 /
Prix Dahinden « Une autre empreinte » – Winner, FR
BMW Artmakers – Finalist with curator Céline Lerebourg, FR
2023 /
BMW Artmakers – Finalist with curator Céline Lerebourg, FR
2023 /
Grand Prix Image Vevey – Shortlist, CH
Prix 1+2, photographie et science – Finalist, FR
Prix Pictet theme « Human » – Nomination, UK
Journalismfund Europe – Grant « Earth Investigation Programme », BE
2022 /
Prix Maison Blanche – Winner, FR
Prix 1+2, photographie et science – Finalist, FR
Prix Swiss Life à 4 mains – Finalist, FR
InCadaquès Festival – Open Call Finalist, ES
Fotografia Europea – Winner, Open Call, IT
Prix Photo Fondation Yves Rocher – Finalist, FR
Passe-Partout Prize, 4th edition – Winner, 1st prize, IT
Prix Caritas, Photographie sociale – Shortlist, FR
Bourse des Amis du Musée Albert Kahn – Finalist, FR
Prix 1+2, photographie et science – Finalist, FR
Prix Pictet theme « Human » – Nomination, UK
Journalismfund Europe – Grant « Earth Investigation Programme », BE
2022 /
Prix Maison Blanche – Winner, FR
Prix 1+2, photographie et science – Finalist, FR
Prix Swiss Life à 4 mains – Finalist, FR
InCadaquès Festival – Open Call Finalist, ES
Fotografia Europea – Winner, Open Call, IT
Prix Photo Fondation Yves Rocher – Finalist, FR
Passe-Partout Prize, 4th edition – Winner, 1st prize, IT
Prix Caritas, Photographie sociale – Shortlist, FR
Bourse des Amis du Musée Albert Kahn – Finalist, FR
2021 /
Prix LNP – Special Mention for "Paradise" (film), FR
Bourse du Talent, Coup de Cœur, FR
Centre national des arts plastiques (Cnap) – Grant, FR
Prix Pictet theme « Fire » – Nomination, UK
Leica Oskar Barnack Award – Nomination, DE
Recent press & publications
Books
Collective books
Press
Capturing the Aftermath of California Wildfires
Paradise, book review on 5ruedu.com
Paradise, la Californie en proie aux mégafeux par Maxime Riché
Feu de rage
Réponses Photo, Réinventer le paysage / Reinventing landscape, April 2024
Fisheye Magazine, Dans l’oeil de Maxime Riché : après le drame, l’ironie des publicitaires, April 2024
Fisheye Magazine #64, Ressource, March 2024
The Loss Encounters podcast, After the fires, March 2024
PHOTO #559, special issue on Beaux-Arts masters, March-May 2024
France 24, guest on La matinale 2/02/2024
France Amérique Magazine, Colors of the Flames, February 2024
BMW Art Makers 2024 finalists, February 2024
Fisheye Magazine, Sous les cendres renaîtra Paradise, November 2023
Réponse Photo, special issue, November 2023
revue EPIC #12 (sold out)
Pélerin, Le Grand Reportage, June 2023
M le Magazine du Monde, De cendres et de braises