Antonin Aïder-Cœuru

French artist based in Copenhagen.

Ongoing project Stalingrad, exploring the environment I grew up in. I am interested in how much the environment can condition and shape people’s lives and perspectives. The approach is almost sociological. I look at the quiet violence of the architecture and concrete, as well as the hardships this neighbourhood has long lived with: drug use, violence, and the precarious situation of refugees living under the bridge. But more importantly, I look at all the different personalities from all around the world that give Stalingrad its strength and beauty, making it such a special place to me.

I am also keen to explore the notion of portrait, in this project and more generally, by questioning its traditional definition and the way we usually look at our surroundings. A lock, a camera, a traffic light, every object has a way of existing that belongs to it alone. To me, making their portraits is more than simply photographing them. It is an attempt to reveal and expose the way objects are shaping the environment they’re moving through. And how, therefore, they have an impact (consciously or not) on the people living in that environment.

WELCOMEBANGLADESH is a handmade photobook assembled in 2026 from a journey we took through Bangladesh in April 2025.

The book works with photography on several different levels at once. Alongside straight photographs from the trip, we photographed everyday objects and ephemera we collected along the way (tickets, receipts, found paper) and inserted them into the pages so they look like scans. The object itself becomes part of the book’s material and tells its own story.

Through this layering, we wanted to render the experience of travelling through Bangladesh and the full range of emotions it put us through. We didn’t arrive with a fixed idea of what to photograph. Instead, the photographs follow the encounters and interactions we had along the way, letting the people we met shape the way we approached photography throughout the journey.

We’re grateful to all the people we met in Bangladesh, to everyone who welcomed us and made us feel at home, and to those who contributed to the making of this book.

Wherever I go, I play football. I grew up watching it, playing it every day for hours until I couldn’t walk anymore. Football has therefore come naturally into my practice of photography. Through the series Football, I want to convey what football is to me: something deeply human, as it can take many forms, being shaped by local cultures, while at the same time staying so universal. It also allows people to connect, exchange and share regardless of the way they look, the language they speak, or the place they are from. This is what I try to photograph.

Contact[email protected] Instagram @antoninaidercoeuru
PUBLICATIONS 2026WELCOMEBANGLADESH, handmade photobook, with Ignacio Bobeff Puricelli
RESEARCH & WORK 2026 — 2027Internship, UNESCO, Sector for Priority Africa and External Relations, Unit for National Commissions and Fellowships, Paris 2026Fieldwork, researched how religion shapes the way communities cope with flooding, Bolivia. University of Copenhagen & Universidad Privada de Santa Cruz (UPSA)
EDUCATION 2025 — 2027MSc Global Development, University of Copenhagen 2024Exchange, The Chinese University of Hong Kong 2020 — 2024BA History, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne