Wandrille Potez was born in 1996.
He is a photographer, journalist, and art historian.

He is currently a resident at Villa Marmottan (class of 2024/2025). After completing a khâgne at the Lycée Janson de Sailly, his research—divided between the École Pratique des Hautes Études and Paris Diderot University—took him to Germany, where he became interested in the presence of the Orient in early 18th-century Saxon decor. With a degree in history and comparative civilizations, Wandrille Potez then worked as a researcher at the Centre de Recherche du Château de Versailles, before the Centre des Monuments Nationaux entrusted him with a curatorial assignment, in partnership with the Museum of Decorative Arts in Dresden (Saxony). Between 2019 and 2023, while writing regularly for The Art Newspaper, Wandrille Potez made numerous trips to the Balkans, choosing photography as a means of defending the rare and fragile heritage he discovered there, on foot or by bicycle. In 2024, he devoted his first Parisian exhibition to his adventurous travels in Albania and, in the young magazine Balkanism, drew attention to the fate of the precious churches in the Drino Valley. At his suggestion, these churches were added to the World Monuments Fund's 2025 Watch List. He is preparing a report on his research in Albania and is now working on a book about the country, combining images and stories. Twelve photographs from this work were presented at the Collège des Bernardins.