Laurent Kronental is a French photographer. He was born in 1987 and lives and works in Paris. He is self-taught and discovered photography during a stay of several months in Beijing in 2008, while studying at business school.
His first series, Souvenir d'un Futur (2011–2015), portrays elderly residents of the large housing estates around Paris, shot with a large-format camera. It won the Bourse du Talent in the landscape category in 2015, and the Festival Circulations audience award in 2016. The Bibliothèque nationale de France has added the images to its photographic collection. His work has been shown in Paris, Moscow, London, Athens and Seoul, and published in The Washington Post, The Guardian, Le Monde and the British Journal of Photography. With Charly Broyez he made the series La Cité Oasis (2019–2023).
