Guillaume Geneste

Guillaume Geneste is a French printer and photographer born in 1962. He is the founder of the La Chambre Noire laboratory.

He was 16 when he set up a photo lab in the basement of his family home to develop his prints.

He studied photography at the École française d’enseignement technique (French School of Technical Education) and then worked in a photography shop where he developed and printed colour films when he met printer Marc Bruhat, with whom he worked from 1986 to 1990 at the Sillages studio. He was in charge of the Contrejour laboratory from 1990 to 1995 and founded La Chambre Noire in 1996.

He is the official printer for the photographs of Denis Roche, Pierre De Fenoyl, Sabine Weiss, Martine Franck, Bernard Plossu, Anne-Lise Broyer, Charlotte Perriand, Klavdij Sluban, Hélène David, Céline Croze, and others.

In 2006, he created Tiré à part, a collection of artists' books devoted to photography, in the form of box sets containing photographic prints and texts.

In 2023, the book Le Tirage à mains nues (Shooting with Bare Hands) is published by Lamaindonne, in which he reflects on his work as a printer.

And he directs the Poursuites et Ricochets collection at Lamaindonne, which focuses on family photography, a collection he inaugurated with ‘Tout autour de la photographie’ in 2023.