Damien Aubin is a French photographer and a graduate of the École des Beaux-Arts. His work looks at spaces and figures shaped by systems larger than themselves: places where activity has slowed or stopped, while the structures remain.
He works mainly with a 4x5 view camera and medium format digital systems, a slow method built on distance and precision. His series Civilization looks at environments built at a scale beyond the individual, from Hong Kong and Chicago to Rust Belt towns, and won an All About Photo Online Juried Solo Exhibition in March 2026. Alongside landscapes and buildings, he also makes frontal portraits.
In March 2026 he photographed Pyramiden, a former Soviet coal mining town in Svalbard, together with Barentsburg and Longyearbyen. The work became his first photobook, PYRAMIDEN (2026), and an exhibition at Cinéma Lux in Caen.
