Not things. Their echo.

Matthias Koch is a German photographer based in Ardèche, France. His work — images and writing — gathers around memory, landscape, and the persistence of inherited structures. He is founder and editor of Les Cahiers du Tanargue, a journal of texts and images anchored in southern Ardèche.

Recent — FK Magazine, April 2026 · Athens Photo Festival, shortlist 2025 & 2026 · L'Œil de la Photographie

Upcoming exhibition, Mexico, Café au Soleil, Sainte-Eulalie, Ardèche, France, 26 June – 30 July 2026

An elderly man with glasses smoking a cigar.

TODTNAUBERG

A visual investigation into the persistence of twentieth-century ideological legacies — at a time when authoritarian forms re-emerge in familiar shapes.

2022 - ongoing

Close-up black and white photo of a person's foot in a sandal, with a brick wall in the background.

2016 - ongoing

ESCHATON

The fragile persistence of a world living under the constant shadow of its own end.

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