Benoit paille biography

The work of Benoit Paillé is as aggressive, enchanting and colorful as his own life. After a brief dabble in the bio-medical field, he started living off a camper in 2013, recounting his off-kilter escapades through photography (and ruining three cameras in the process by violently running over speed bumps and dirt tracks). He declares to have fallen “into the downfall of photography”, and though this sounds like a somber statement, the images he produces are anything but.

Bathed in over-saturated hues and zealous lighting, his series The Kitsch Destruction of our World documents his travels through Canada in snapshots that are as brash as they are tender. Eschewing any form of photo retouching, he treats his viewers to both beauty and destruction, swinging from surreal road trip-like shots to more sobering images of deforested areas around Carpenter Lake, clearcutting around the Tofino region, or a raging bushfire in Saskatchewan, BC.

Visit his website and Instagram to discover more of his work that’s guaranteed to take you down a rabbit hole of surreality, from Guatemalan road trips to anti-capitalism marches.

Images © Benoit Paille / with permission

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BENOIT PAILLÉ

Benoit Paillé (b.1984) is a self-taught photographic artist currently roaming the remote and extreme conditions of Quebec, Canada. In 2013, he made a radical decision to live a life on the road, leaving behind a career in medicine to turn his attention towards photography and creative expression.

Benoit’s work seeks to challenge social hierarchies and the status quo. By choosing to travel nomadically, in a custom converted van, with his faithful companion, Gigi, he is exposed to situations and experiences that both inspire and confront his practice.

The surreal, eccentric and unique style that Benoit has developed over the past 10 years, has become a fascinating autobiographical record and depiction of a radical disruptor. With a tendency to depict ordinary lives and locations, kitsch landscapes, fences and strange parking lots, he draws our attention to the unexpected and the unseen.

“I often see myself like a hyper realist painter. My pictures document an altered state of mind. Everybody can shoot beautiful scenery or sunset, but I would rather be a pataphysician, to think about what others don’t. I want to create work that deconstructs reality and that is theatrical… but with minimal effort.” – Benoit Paillé, 2022

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