Born in Paris in 1990, Adrien Le Falher is a fine art photographer, filmmaker, and digital artist. His career began as the official photographer for the first non-Japanese geisha, an assignment where he could photograph the texture of a fabric, lacquer, beautiful strands of hair, but never truly render their materiality. That frustration became the starting point of his practice.

Working on several mediums, from analog large-format and digital images, his images are built from a slow accumulation of detail, some taking years to complete. Subjects range from urban skylines to volcanic landscapes and the abandoned towns of the Pacific Northwest, across series including Noire America, Une Respiration, and Vacancy Cities. He is currently developing Japan: Crossing the Screen, photographed on traditional washi paper.

That same question of materiality runs through a separate body of work. In Ko Hanga, he references Shin Hanga woodblock prints down to the making: mulberry paper, a hand-bound book, a cover label carved in wood. In Fragile, black-and-white photographs of ordinary American parks and roads argue against their own apparent timelessness: everything pictured is bound to disappear. Pierres et Diamants d'Islande pushes the question furthest: Diamond Beach, shot with the full technique of jewelry photography, is printed on water-soluble paper and mounted to a block of ice that melts under the heat of whoever looks at it.

That same interest in the photograph as object extends to print. Through a collaboration with Atelier Marie Levoyet, he produces bespoke héliogravure prints, a 19th-century process only fifteen artisans still practice: copper etched by the photograph, inked by hand, pressed against paper. The pieces are reserved for collectors.

In 2018, Le Falher was among the first artists to use GANs as a creative tool, training models on his own photographic archive. The work was later cited alongside Obvious and Refik Anadol in Kate Vass Galerie's History of Generative & AI Art series. He has also directed short films including Julie (2014), Polish (2015), and Incompatibles (2013); spent over a decade as a motion designer for agencies including Fred & Farid and W&Cie (Havas Group); and founded ICONO, an AI video search company, and Vous êtes ici, a soundscape podcast.

Adrien Le Falher lives and works in Paris.