Born in 1968 in Castelsarrasin, France. Lives and works in Paris. Lionel Bayol-Thémines trained in biochemistry is a self-taught photographer. He was an active member of the Lucette omnibus collective in the 1990s, and headed the Image Forum in Toulouse from 1998 to 2002, before moving to Paris in 2004. He is a permanent resident of the National Foundation for Graphic and Plastic arts (Fnagp), and now spends his time on personal research and teaches photography and graphic arts.
For some 20 years, Lionel Bayol-Thémines has been observing the evolution of our societies via fictional anthropology. This plastic research focuses on the relations of man to his history and his environment, like in the series Typology of human language and Empty land. Today, by mixing digital photography and 3D techniques, Lionel Bayol-Thémines is building a new reality where the real and virtual coexist in symbiosis (Silent mutation-post Anthropocene, landscape construction…), as he questions us on our shared living space. His photographs are regularly displayed in personal or collective exhibits. They are among the permanent collections of the Maison Européenne de La photographie (Paris), the city of Lyon-France, the Arthothèque in Caen, among others.
