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 at what has always been this neighbourhood: drugs, refugees under the bridge, violence — 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.

WELCOMEBANGLADESH is a handmade photobook made with my friend Ignacio Bobeff Puricelli, assembled in 2026 from a journey we took through Bangladesh in April 2025, a country visited by very few outsiders and almost unknown in the West.

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 traveling through Bangladesh, and the full range of emotions it put us through. An important consideration for us was to really try not to put ourselves too much at the centre of the process. Instead, the flow of encounters and interactions we had shaped the way we approached photography throughout the journey.

The book is less a record of two photographers’ point of view than a document of an encounter: two individuals, completely foreign to the place, meeting a new country and the people in it.

Contact[email protected] Instagram @antoninaidercoeuru
PUBLICATIONS 2026WELCOMEBANGLADESH, handmade photobook, with Ignacio Bobeff Puricelli
EDUCATION 2025 — 2027MSc Global Development, University of Copenhagen 2024Exchange, The Chinese University of Hong Kong 2020 — 2024BA History, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne