Gregory Colbert

Biography

Photographer/filmmaker Gregory Colbert was born in Toronto, Canada, in 1960. He began his career in Paris in 1983 making documentary films on social issues. His first exhibition, "Timewaves", opened to wide critical acclaim in 1992 at the Museum of Elysée in Switzerland. For the next ten years, Colbert went off the grid and did not publicly share his art or show any films. He began traveling the world to photograph and film wondrous interactions between animals and humans.

After ten years passed, Colbert returned to present "Ashes and Snow" at the Arsenale in Venice, Italy, in 2002. An immersive experience of nature that combines photographic artworks, films, and soundscapes, housed in a pu...