(20 febrero 1902 — 22 abril 1984)

Antoine D’Agata is a French photographer, born in 1961 in Marseille. Antoine d’Agata left France in 1983 and remained abroad for the next ten years. Arriving in New York in 1990, he feels an interest in photography taking courses at the ICP (International Center of Photography) , where his professors included Larry Clark and Nan Goldin.

During his stay in New York, in 1991-92, D’Agata worked as an intern in the editorial department of Magnum, but despite his experience and training in the US, after his return to France in 1993 he took a four-year break from photography. His first photography books, “De Mala Muerte” and “Mala Noche”, were published in 1998, and the following year Galería Vu began distributing his work. In 2001 he published “Ciudad de origen”, and won the Niépce Prize for young photographers. He continued to publish regularly: “Vortex” and “Insomnia” appeared in 2003, accompanying his exhibition “1001 Nuits”, which opened in Paris in September, “The stigma” was published in 2004 and “Manifeste” in 2005.

In 2004 D’Agata incorporated Magnum Photos and in the same year, he filmed his first short film, “Le Ventre du Monde” (The belly of the world), this experiment took him to the feature film “Aka Ana”, shot in 2006 in Tokyo.

Since 2005, Antoine d’Agata has not had an established place of residence, but has worked all over the world.