D'Agata was born in Marseille in 1961. He left France in 1983 to start a series of travels. He studied photography at the International Center of Photography of New York City in 1990, under the tutelage of Larry Clark and Nan Goldin.
In 2001 D'Agata won the Niépce Prize for young photographers.
D'Agata has been a full member of Magnum Photos since 2008. He has published more than a dozen books and three films.
In 2009 Tommaso Lusena and Giuseppe Schillaci released a documentary film about D'Agata called The Cambodian Room: Situations with Antoine D'Agata.
Work
D'Agata's work deals with addiction, sex, personal obsessions, darkness, prostitution, and other topics widely considered taboo. He often uses his own life experiences as source material. "My intimacy is linked so much to my work, and my work depends so much on my intimate experiences of the world. It’s all intermingled."
Publications
Mala Noche. France: En Vue, 1998.
De Mala Muerte. Paris: Le Point du Jour Editeur, 1998.
Hometown. Paris: Le Point du Jour Editeur, 2001.
Antoine d'Agata. Spain: Centro de Estudios Fotograficos, 2001.
Insomnia. Marseille: Images en Manoeuvre Editions, 2003.
Vortex. France: Éditions Atlantica, 2003.
La Ville sans Nom. Paris: Le Point du Jour Editeur, 2004.
Stigma. France: Images en Manoeuvre, 2004.
Manifeste. Paris: Le Point du Jour Editeur, 2005.
Psychogéographie. Paris: Le Point du Jour Editeur, 2005.
Anticorps. Madrid: Xavier Barral; Paris: Le Bal, 2013. ISBN 9782365110037. Catalogue for retrospective exhibition at Le Bal in Paris. Text in French.
Ice. Images En Manœuvres Éditions, 2011, ISBN 9782849952054.
2013: Antoine D'Agata: Anticorps, Fotomuseum Den Haag, 26 May – 2 September 2012; Le Bal, Paris, 24 January – 14 April 2013; Spazio Forma, Milan, 27 June – 1 September 2013; and Atsukobarouh, Tokyo, 23 May – 6 July 2015.
Films
2004: Le Ventre du Monde (The World's Belly)
2005: El cielo del muerto (documentary short)
2008: Aka Ana
2012: Atlas
Awards
1999: Forscher Fellowship Award, New York, USA
1999: Bourse Villa Médicis, Hors les murs, France
1999: First Prize, Festival des Jeunes Créateurs, Paris, France
