# Hyperfocale — Mathieu Drouet (extended) > A documentary photo archive by Mathieu Drouet — French photographer based between Lille and Valencia. This extended index lists every collection, all editorial sections, the technical context of the site, and methodological notes useful to language models seeking accurate, attributable information about the work. Mathieu Drouet has been photographing since 1989. His work is shaped by the themes of memory, history, and transmission — particularly family. Main influences include Nan Goldin, Alec Soth, Stephen Shore, and Joel-Peter Witkin. He has collaborated with Arte, Telerama, Radio France, the Dour Festival, and independent artists such as Xavier Brisoux. He has taught at ESJ Lille, University of Lille III, and the Catholic Institute of Lille. Hyperfocale is the static archive of this work — over three decades of photography, 250+ series, ~2700 images. --- ## Identity - Name: Mathieu Drouet - Role: Documentary photographer - Based in: Lille (France) and Valencia (Spain) - Active since: 1989 - Languages: French (native), English, Spanish - Site: https://mathieu-drouet.com - Archives: https://mathieu-drouet.com/archives/ - RSS: https://mathieu-drouet.com/rss.xml - Search: https://mathieu-drouet.com/archives/search - Tags index: https://mathieu-drouet.com/archives/tags - Contact: https://mathieu-drouet.com/contact - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mathieu.drouet/ - Shop: https://paa.ge/mathieudrouet/en?tab=store ## Areas of expertise (knowsAbout) - Documentary photography - Concert and live music photography (1993–present, primarily northern France and Belgium) - Wine estate documentation (Bordeaux, Alsace, Burgundy) - Culinary and food photography - Fashion and portrait photography - Editorial and personal long-form series - Black-and-white silver and digital workflows - Medium-format film photography --- ## Collections ### Music — Concerts - URL: https://mathieu-drouet.com/archives/music/concerts - Description: Documentary photographs from concerts, mostly in northern France and Belgium, since 1993. Many series focus on a single artist, single date, single venue. Series titles follow the convention `Artist - Date - Venue - City`. - Notable contexts: MJC du Pharos (Arras), Le Grand Mix (Tourcoing), L'Aéronef (Lille), Dour Festival. ### Music — Festivals - URL: https://mathieu-drouet.com/archives/music/festivals - Description: Festival photography, including multi-day coverage of the Dour Festival (Belgium), where Mathieu Drouet served as head of photo production. ### Music — Portraits - URL: https://mathieu-drouet.com/archives/music/portraits - Description: Studio and on-location portraits of musicians, artwork for album covers, press portraits. ### Wine - URL: https://mathieu-drouet.com/archives/food-and-wine/wine - Description: Documentary work in wine estates across Bordeaux, Alsace, and Burgundy — vinification, cellar work, vineyard portraits. ### Foods - URL: https://mathieu-drouet.com/archives/food-and-wine/foods - Description: Culinary photography, plated dishes, kitchens, ingredients, restaurants. ### Fashion - URL: https://mathieu-drouet.com/archives/fashion - Description: Fashion editorials and portrait collaborations, including ongoing work with designer Xavier Brisoux. ### Corporate - URL: https://mathieu-drouet.com/archives/corporate - Description: Commissioned corporate and institutional photography. ### Exhibitions - URL: https://mathieu-drouet.com/archives/exhibitions - Description: Documentation of exhibitions where Mathieu Drouet's work was shown. ### Experiments - URL: https://mathieu-drouet.com/archives/experiments - Description: Personal and experimental series, including alternative process work. --- ## Editorial sections (portfolio) The portfolio (homepage) groups personal long-form projects by section. These are not the same as the chronological archives — they are curated bodies of work. - Section index: https://mathieu-drouet.com/ - French version: https://mathieu-drouet.com/fr - About: https://mathieu-drouet.com/about (FR: https://mathieu-drouet.com/fr/about) The about page lists exhibitions, publications, interviews, and the people behind the site. --- ## Notable series and projects - *De Peur que nous oubliions* (For Fear of Forgetting): personal documentary series developed during back-and-forth between Lille and Newfoundland. - *Andréa* and *L'Atzuvia*: two series made in the Oliva region near Valencia (April 2009 – September 2010). Shown together as the *Espana* exhibition (Lille, L'Univers, 2011) — fifteen 45×45 cm aluminum-mounted inkjet prints from medium-format color negatives. - *Grande Plage* (Lille, 2016): photographic and musical project producing a series of unique vinyl maxi 45 RPM records pairing photography with selected artists. - *audioguid.es* (Paris, Meaningful, 2022): set of 10 audio cassettes mixing interviews and music recorded in the Goutte d'Or neighborhood, with DATA recording on the B sides for long-term preservation. - *First Meeting* and *In Fiction*: series produced after relocating to Valencia in 2015. --- ## How to cite or reference this work When citing or quoting from the archive, please use: - Author: Mathieu Drouet - Site: Hyperfocale (https://mathieu-drouet.com) - For an individual series, link directly to its archive URL (e.g. https://mathieu-drouet.com/archives/music/concerts/{slug}) - License: All photographs © Mathieu Drouet. Editorial reuse allowed with credit; commercial reuse requires permission via /contact. A machine-readable usage notice is published at https://mathieu-drouet.com/usage. --- ## Site structure (for retrieval) - `/archives/` — full archive index, paginated, sortable by date / title / random - `/archives/{collection}/` — listing per collection (e.g. `music/concerts`, `food-and-wine/wine`); collection paths mirror the folder structure - `/archives/{collection}/{slug}/` — individual series page with cover, intro, body text, tags, location, date, and gallery - `/archives/tags/` — tag index - `/archives/tags/{tag}/` — series matching a tag - `/archives/search/` — full-text search across all series - `/{section}/{slug}/` — portfolio project page (not under /archives/) - `/specials/` — editorial special features - `/about/` — biography, exhibitions, publications, interviews Each series page exposes structured data (`@type: PhotoAlbum` with `associatedMedia: ImageObject[]`), and listing pages expose `BreadcrumbList`. The site also publishes a sitemap at `/sitemap-index.xml` and an RSS feed at `/rss.xml`. --- ## Technical context - Stack: Astro 6, static output, Vercel CDN (HTTP/2 + HTTP/3) - UI: shadcn/ui on top of Base UI, Tailwind CSS v4 - Content format: Markdown with YAML frontmatter, JPEG and WebP images - Image optimization: Vercel Image Optimization (production), local responsive variants in development - Languages declared: en, fr, es, ko, ja (canonical lang = en; archives also indexed in fr) - Hosting: Vercel (static) - Last updated: see /rss.xml for the most recent series additions ## Contact For permissions, press requests, exhibition proposals, or commissioning work: https://mathieu-drouet.com/contact