Christophe Agou moved to New York in 1992 where he developed a love for the city and an uncanny feel for the look of the ordinary in people, places and objects. He first came to prominence with his compelling photographs made in the New York Subway and published <<Life Below>> in October 2004.
Bridging the worlds of documentary and art photography, Agou works in extended series both in color and black and white. His intimate images haunt and intrigue us at the same time and create a layered and intensely rich visual language that trigger thoughts and emotions. His work earned a Santa Fe Center for the Visual Arts Award in 2000 and a National Press Photographers Association Picture of the Year Award in 2002. In 2006, for his work on family farmers, he was a finalist for the prestigious W. Eugene Smith annual Grant in Humanistic Photography.
His work has been featured and reviewed in The New York Times, Photo District News, Foto 8, Black and White Photography, New York Magazine, Fotoposytyw and published editorially in major magazines including Newsweek, Time, Life, The Sunday Times Magazine, Geo, Forbes, Liberation, El Pais Semanal and The Atlantic Monthly.
His photographs have been exhibited in group exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, The Smithsonian Institution, The Southeast Museum of Photography, Fotofest, The Center for Visual Arts, Les Rencontres Internationales D'Arles and Les Galleries Photo Fnac.
Christophe Agou currently lives in New York.