Éric Antoine was born in 1974. As he emerged from adolescence, he discovered his passion for photography and devoted all his energy to exploring the possibilities of analog processes. He set out into the world, encountering people and urban landscapes through his many travels. Fifteen years and thousands of magazine pages later, his life took a sudden turn. In 2010, he chose the quiet of a country house, far from the turmoil of the cities. He slowed his pace considerably and began to focus on life and nature in their simplest forms.

For five years, he photographed only his immediate surroundings, within his home. This period of voluntary withdrawal gave rise to the book *Ensemble Seul*, published at the end of 2015.

Driven by a desire to return to essentials, Éric Antoine turned to early photographic processes, developing an artistic practice that became more pictorial and bucolic. Far from any nostalgic impulse, he seeks, with patience and discipline, to push the technical and aesthetic refinement of his work as far as possible within a contemporary approach. The materiality of the image remains central to his research. In this context, the wet collodion process becomes not a relic of the past, but an emancipatory discipline.

Éric Antoine exhibits his work in galleries and museums in France, across Europe, and in the United States. His work can be discovered on his website.