Profile
French photographer, visual artist, filmmaker, and exhibition curator. My work blends documentary
and fictional approaches, exploring memory, identity, and the traces left by history. With over 15
years of experience in artistic direction, curation, visual education, and festival programming, I
collaborate with institutions in France and abroad.
Professional Experience
Artistic Director & Founder — Galerie Photoeil (2005–2022)
Artistic direction, partnerships, and curating national and international exhibitions.
Exhibition Curator — Festival SonMiré (2005–2021)
Head of Photography Programming — Cerbère Film Meetings (2009–2021)
Co-Founder — Fotolimo Festival (2016)
Portfolio Reviewer — Voies Off, Rencontres d’Arles (2009–2020)
Vice-President — Artistes en Campagne (2018)
Artist Residency — Turku, Finland (2010–2011)
Collections
Zelda Cheatle Gallery (London), Horizon Gallery (Spain), and private collections.
Selected Exhibitions (2011–2025)
2025 — Guest of Honour, Artistic Challenge, Castillonès
2024 — Radh’Art, Miramont de Guyenne
2023 — Festival 11220 (Lagrasse), Cinéma Le Mondial (Collioure)
2022 — Galerie Colera (Spain), Cerbère Film Meetings
2021–2011 — Numerous exhibitions across France, Spain, Finland, and the USA.
Education
Gobelins School of Image (Paris)
B.A. in Cultural Administration — University Paul Valéry Montpellier III
Skills
Art direction, curation, photography, film creation, artistic education, portfolio reviewing, visual
storytelling.
Languages
French (native), English (intermediate).

David Samblanet is a French artist-researcher working across photography, video, and sound. His
practice blends documentary and fictional strategies to explore memory, identity, and the traces left
by personal and collective histories. Through a poetic approach to “fictional photography,” he
reconstructs fragments of his past while questioning perception, presence, and the phenomenology
of the image.
Samblanet has taught photography at Gobelins–Paris 13 and collaborates with cultural and
educational institutions. His projects have been exhibited in France, Spain, Finland, and the United
States, and his work is held in the collections of the Zelda Cheatle Gallery (London), Galeria
Horizon (Spain), and the Maison des Arts de Bages d’Aude.