Antoine D'Agata

Antoine d'Agata (; born 1961) is a French photographer and film director. His work deals with topics that are often considered taboo, such as addiction, sex, personal obsessions, darkness, and prostitution.

D'Agata is a full member of Magnum Photos. In 2001, he won the Niépce Prize for young photographers.

Life and work D'Agata was born in Marseille in 1961.

D'Agata's work deals with addiction, sex, personal obsessions, darkness, prostitution, and other topics widely considered taboo.

D'Agata has been a full member of Magnum Photos since 2008. He has published more than a dozen books and three films.

In 2009, Tommaso Lusena and Giuseppe Schillaci released a documentary film about d'Agata called The Cambodian Room: Situations with Antoine d'Agata.

Publications Publications by d'Agata Mala Noche. France: En Vue, 1998. De Mala Muerte. Paris: , 1998. Hometown. Paris: Le Point du Jour Editeur, 2001. Antoine d'Agata. Spain: Centro de Estudios Fotograficos, 2001. Insomnia. Marseille: Images en Manoeuvre, 2003. Vortex. France: Atlantica, 2003. La Ville sans Nom. Paris: Le Point du Jour Editeur, 2004. Stigma. Marseille: Images en Manoeuvre, 2004. . With a text by Philippe Azoury. Manifeste. Cherbourg-Octeville (Manche): Le Point du Jour Editeur, 2005. . Psychogéographie. Paris: Le Point du Jour Editeur, 2005. . With texts by d'Agata and Bruno Le Dantec. Agonie. Arles: Actes Sud/Atelier de Visu, 2009. Text by Rafael Garido. Ice. Images En Manœuvres, 2011. . Position(s). Avarie, 2012. Paraiso. France: Andre Frere, 2013. Anticorps. Madrid: Xavier Barral; Paris: Le Bal, 2013. . Catalogue for retrospective exhibition at Le Bal in Paris. Text in French. Antibodies. Munich: Prestel, 2014. . With a text by d'Agata translated into English. Fukushima. Tokyo: Super Labo, 2015. Text in English and Japanese. Edition of 500 copies. AiTHO. Roquevaire, France: Andre Frere, 2015. Text in French. Edition of 300 copies. Index. Roquevaire, France: Andre Frere, 2015. . Cidade de Pedra. Athens: Void, 2016. Codex – Mexico 1986–2007. Mexico: Editorial RM, 2016. Lilith. 64P series. Madrid: La Fábrica, 2017. . Text in English and Spanish. Self-Portraits: 1987–2017. Tokyo: Super Labo, 2017. Edition of 1000 copies. Oscurana. Athens: Void, 2018. Acéphale. Arles: Studio Vortex, 2018. Stasis. Arles. Studio Vortex, 2019.

Publications paired with another Aïda Mady Diallo. Les Carnets de la Creation series. Montreuil, Paris: l'Oeil, 2003. . A short story by Aïda Mady Diallo with photographs from Mali by d'Agata. In French.

Publications with contributions by d'Agata Home. Tokyo: Magnum Photos Tokyo, 2018. . Hunger. Athens: Void, 2018. .

Films Le Ventre du Monde = The World's Belly (2004) El Cielo del Muerto (2005) – documentary short Aka Ana (2008) Atlas (2012) White Noise (2019)

Exhibitions 1001 Nuits, Paris, 2004. Antoine D'Agata: Anticorps, Fotomuseum Den Haag, 26 May – 2 September 2012; Le Bal, Paris, 24 January – 14 April 2013; Spazio Forma, Milan, 27 June – 1 September 2013; and Atsukobarouh, Tokyo, 23 May – 6 July 2015.

Awards 2001: Niépce Prize, Association , Paris 2004: Overseas Photographer Prize, Higashikawa Prize, Japan 2013: Rencontres d'Arles Author's Book Award, Arles, France, for Anticorps (2013)