Hideyuki Ishibashi (born in 1986 in Kobe, Japan) lives and works in Lille, France, where he has been based since 2011. Trained in photography at Nihon University in Tokyo and later at Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains, he has developed an organic photographic practice exploring the relationships between photography, culture, and nature, questioning how images shape our perception of reality in the digital age.

His approach unfolds through a constant dialogue between historical techniques and contemporary tools. By combining early photographic processes, archival manipulations, and material experimentation, he creates images in which landscape, memory, and time converge — situated between material presence and imagination. His work engages deeply with the history and philosophical foundations of photography, as well as with the medium’s capacity to connect past and present.

His recent research focuses on post-industrial and river environments, mobilizing ashes, vegetal pigments, and environmental samples to reveal silent processes of regeneration, geological duration, and living metamorphosis. Through often minimal and contemplative forms, his practice seeks to reactivate a sensitive and temporal relationship to the image within a context of visual acceleration.

His work has been exhibited internationally in France, Japan, South Korea, Germany, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom, in institutions including Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains, Bibliothèque nationale de France, CRP/, and Institut pour la photographie. He has also participated in international fairs such as Paris Photo, Photo Basel, Photo London, and Unseen Amsterdam.

His works are held in several public and private collections, including the Bibliothèque nationale de France, CRP/, the Pictet Collection, the Frédéric de Goldschmidt Collection, the Amana Collection, Landskrona Museum, the OBC Neuflize Collection, and KPMG Meijburg & Co.

His work is represented by IBASHO in Antwerp and Bigaignon in Paris.