YVES MARCHAND & ROMAIN MEFFRE イヴ・マルシャン＆ ロマ・メェッフェル

Working as a duo for over 20 years, Yves Marchand & Romain Meffre are celebrated for their large-format photographs of modern ruins. These include deserted theatres across North America, Japan's abandoned Gunkanjima (Battleship Island), and urban decay across the city of Detroit. In recent years Marchand & Meffre have experimented with Al technology to transform the city of Paris into a post-apocalyptic ruin. In these photos, the Pompidou Centre is rusting, the Louvre's glass pyramids are shattered, and the Moulin Rouge is swallowed by ivy.

At KYOTOGRAPHIE 2026, Marchand & Meffre will show a breadth of their achitectural studies on ruins, presenting images from The Ruins of Detroit, Gunkanjima, and Les Ruines of Paris. In addition, the duo will produce a new body of work in Kyoto, employing the same technique as Paris and using Al to transform the ancient city into a desolate ruin. In this interplay of history and intervention, Marchand & Meffre open conversations about the authenticity of photography, the ability of Al to deceive us, and the thin line between reality and fiction.