Bio. Born in Normandy in 1994, I have been living and working in Russia as a photographer since 2020.

I studied economics in Rouen in 2021 with a double degree from Plekhanov University in Moscow in 2014. In love with nature and the great outdoors, I quickly became attracted to the Siberian forests and the cold expanses of Russia's East. At first as a tourist, then with a camera in hand, preferring black and white to match the despair and lack of hope in some of these very harsh regions.

In 2019, I get my first work published, Solstice (2019), where I followed the religious processions of old believers, then Kola (2020), a residency above the Arctic Circle in the city of Murmansk and SKORO ZIMA (2023), a documentary journey of the life in Russian since the beginning of the invasion in 2022.

I attempt to capture the contradictions I see in the country. A huge geography and a society caught between hope and disillusionment.

Member of photo agency Hans Lucas and regular publications in Figaro, Géo Magazine, l’Obs, Libération, Mediapart, L’Equipe Magazine…

I speak French, English, and Russian

Available for assignments. tom.grimbert@gmail.com