Born in 1968 in Nijmegen, Netherlands, Philip Provily lives in Burgundy, France.
He was working as an assistant of photography artist Rineke Dijkstra.
Philip Provily started his career in the Netherlands with an exhibition at the Groninger Museum. He went on to expose in Rome at Galleria Pino Casagrande and in 2000 he was invited by Institut Néerlandais in Paris for the exhibition L'Oeil du Nord.
His work is in the art collection of Museum Voorlinden in the Netherlands, Maison Européenne de la Photographie and chosen for the catalogue Le regardeur Neuflize Vie collection in Paris and for the anthology Photographers of The Netherlands by GEM Museum in the Hague.
He exposed at Centre National de la Photographie (now Jeu de Paume), La Friche la Belle de Mai, Marseille.
In Paris he is working for UNESCO, the Dutch Embassy. Also in Editorial for Le Monde, De Volkskrant, L’Optimum and Psychologies magazine.
He loves to work in portraits, staged photography with a sense of humor and poetic lightscapes.
Awards :
BBA Photography Prize, Longlist, 2021
Lensculture Art Photography Awards, Shortlist, 2019
Fotofever 2011, Coup cœur, Paris.