Exhibitions
2026 Bold, le week-end du livre de photographie autoédité, Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris
2025 Agreements, Galerie-s-Mortier, Paris
2024 French Season: ‘What Shadow?’ (Ce Que Dit La Bouche d’Ombre), ArtHouse, Jersey, UK
2023-24 Kassel Dummy Award ‘23, traveling to Mystetska biblioteka, Lviv, Ukraine ; Photobook Festival, Leipzig, Germany ; NOKS Art Space, Istanbul, Turky ; Ka space for visual culture and artistic thinking, Ankara, Turky ; RPS, Kyoto and Tokyo, Japan ; Photobook Week Aarhus, Aarhus, Danemark ; Istituto Italiano di Fotografia, Milan, Italy; Jakarta International Photofestival, Jakarta, Indonesia ; Centre for contemporary photography, Melbourne, Australia ; PhotoIreland Festival, Dublin, Irlande ; Rencontres d’Arles, Arles, France ; Lumenvisum, Hong-Kong ; Fotofestiwal, Łódz, Poland ; Internationale Photoszene Köln, Cologne, Germany ; Grisart, Barcelone, Spain ; Officine Fotografiche, Rome, Italy ; Format Festival, Derby, UK
2021 The Wall, Investeam, Paris, FR
2017 Artists in Residency, la Fototeca, Guatemala City, Guatemala
2016 A New Nothing, Osnova Gallery, Moscow, RU
2015 10 Visions of Paris, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR
2015 Tidewalk, Jersey Arts Centre, Jersey, UK
2014 Senza meta. Il libro come pensiero fotografico, (Without a destination. The book as a photographic thought),
Fotografia Europea, Reggio Emilia, IT
2013 Additional Satellite, book signing and conference, galerie LE BAL, Paris, FR
2012 Sea of Promise, The History of Now, Festival F-Stop, Leipzig, Germany
2011 Le Garage, 2nd edition, Rencontres d’Arles, voies off, Arles, FR
2011 Bookmakers, LE BAL, Paris, FR
2010 Bookmakers, galerie Le Château d’Eau, Toulouse, FR
2010 Le Garage, first edition, Rencontres d’Arles, voies off, Arles, FR
2009 Kings Road, Lleida photo festival, Lleida, SP
2008 Battlefield, Brighton Photo Fringe Festival, Brighton, UK
2008 Kings Road, festival MarsAttac, le Sémaphore, Nîmes, FR
2007 Light Motives, Sassoon gallery, London, UK
2007 MA final show, University of Brighton, Brighton, UK
2006 CROP, Brighton Photo Fringe Festival, Sussex Arts Club, Brighton, UK
2004 Sourires de nuit, squat des 400 couverts, Grenoble, FR
Grants, nominations, residencies
2024 ADAGP, research bursary, Paris, FR
2024 Musée National des Invalides, photographic residency, shortlist, Paris, FR
2023 Kassel Dummy Award ‘23, shortlist, Cologne, Germany
2023 Jersey ArtHouse, residency, Jersey, UK
2020 Southern French territories, Kerguelen, (TAAF), residency, FR
2018 MACK editions, First Book Award, shortlist, London, UK
2015 Jersey Art Centre, residency, Jersey, UK
2010 PhotoEspana, Descubrimientos, selection, Madrid, SP
2008 Prix de la Fondation HSBC pour la photographie, shortlist, Paris, FR
2007 Joan Wakelin Bursary, Royal Photographic Society and The Guardian, shortlist, London, UK
Editions
2018 The Wall, artist book, Paris
2013 Additional Satellite, self-publish, Paris
2008 Kings Road, artist book, Brighton, UK
2005 La Mise en Images du conflit afghan, usage de la photographie dans la presse française et américaine, L’Harmattan, Paris
Articles
2026 Fabien Ribery, « Retour en France, Véronique Besnard, photographe », blog L’intervalle, 26 janvier 2026.
https://lintervalle.blog/2026/01/26/retour-en-france-par-veronique-besnard-photographe/
2018 Owen Gwynne Vince, « What does the future of photography looks like? » , Anothermagazine.com, 2018.
https://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/10695/what-does-the-future-of-photography-look-like
Sebastian Arthur Hau, « Sideways », Camera Austria # 143, septembre 2018.
https://camera-austria.at/en/zeitschrift/143-2018/
2013 Sebastian Arthur Hau, Photobooks, Sebastian Hau, foam magazine # 34 dummy, printemps
2012 The History of Now, exhibition catalog, F-Stop, Lubok Verlag, 2012.
Education
2007 Master of Arts, photography, Brighton University, UK
2004 Sciences Po, Grenoble, FR.
