I picked up my first camera in Thailand when I was a kid. I had no plan, but the light was too good to let pass. It was just a trip that made me realize I'd always been paying attention to light, to people, to the way a place feels. That trip just changed everything.

A year in Japan. Two years in Australia. A stint in Switzerland. Each place left something behind : a different relationship with light, with silence, with the way people inhabit space. I didn't study photography but I studied the world, and photography became the way I made sense of it.

Nowadays, I work at the intersection of fashion, hospitality and travel. Backstage at runway shows, on location for editorials, in resorts at golden hour. The through line is always the same : perfect light, real moments, images that feel alive rather than staged.

Based between Paris and Biarritz, I am available worldwide!

studio@gautierchauffrut.com

 +33 (0)7 70 48 85 01

Selected Clients

CR Fashion book, CitizenK, Kartik Research, Magda Butrym, Purple PR, The Curator Magazine, Solid Homme, Airbnb, Roland Garros, Hyatt Centric Waikiki, Napili Kai Beach Resort, Golf de la Bresse, Guisarde Studios, Groupe Barrière, Domaine du gouverneur, Segara Lombok, Paris Society, Kalyana Gili Air

Exhibition

2026 - SURFACE
Climate House Paris
on going