Christophe Avella Bagur is a French painter and photographer born in 1968 and based in Provence. He holds a Master’s degree in Arts and Human Sciences from Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. His work has been exhibited internationally since 1992, across Europe, the United States and Asia. His works are held in public and private collections including Fondation Colas, MONA Detroit, Villa Tamaris, the Copelouzos Family Art Museum and the Osten collection. Alongside his painting practice, Avella Bagur has developed a photographic body of work focused on human presence, memory, territory and the traces left by individual lives. His photographic projects include Belfast 1992, a documentary series made during several weeks in Northern Ireland; MBK, photographed at night between Malta, Bari and Kraków; Gdańsk 2026 — From the Golden Hour to Nightfall; and An Existential Abridgment, an ongoing series of constructed still lifes in which everyday objects become fragments of an absent human biography. His photographic approach is rooted in walking, observation and a strong pictorial awareness of composition, light and material presence. Whether working in the street or in the studio, he seeks images in which ordinary reality becomes both evidence and metaphor. He lives and works in southern France.