Ongoing project · 2024
Mexico: Ritual, Costume, and Presence
Catrina portraits made in Mexico City, moving between group compositions and an individual presence.
Fine-art photography · Los Angeles
Cultural presence, landscape, and ritual.
Philippe Paquet is a French photographer based in Los Angeles. His work brings cultural portraiture into relation with landscape, attending to how people inhabit places through dress, gesture, and their material surroundings.
Featured project
Mongolia: From the Gobi Desert to the Altai Mountains
Featured project
Mongolia: From the Gobi Desert to the Altai Mountains
From the Gobi Desert to the Altai Mountains, the photographs move between open terrain, portraits, and practiced gestures. People, animals, and the structures of daily life appear together within the landscape.
Photographs made in 2023 and 2026 · Museum presentations, 2025–2026
Exhibitions
The work in a museum.
The Mongolia project has been presented at the National Museum of World Cultures in Mexico City and the Regional Museum of Nayarit in Tepic. The exhibition brings the photographs together as large-format prints.
- 2025–2026National Museum of World CulturesMexico City
- 2026
Further projects
Other places. Other encounters.
Selected photographs from ongoing work in Mexico and Papua New Guinea.
Ongoing project · 2025
Papua New Guinea: Paint, Ornament, and Presence
Portraits from the Highlands of Papua New Guinea.
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The photograph as a physical work.
The print is part of the work from the beginning. Scale, paper, surface, and tonal depth are developed through testing and refinement, with each photograph guiding its own material choices. Works are offered in limited editions defined by print size.
About
A practice between people and place.
Paquet’s recent work moves between cultural portraiture and landscape. Mongolia brings these interests together in a project developed for exhibition; photographs from Mexico and Papua New Guinea extend the attention to dress, gesture, and individual presence.
Inquiries
Exhibitions, acquisitions, and conversations about the work.
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