riego van wersch
Photography, France
 
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Riego van Wersch
« Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition». Octavio Paz
Neither peculiar subjects nor eccentricity, neither tricks nor devices in the photographs of Riego van Wersch. Urban views, countryside landscapes, beaches, night and day around all continents. And the systematic presence of human beings as erased elements in the composition, dissolved in the setting. Nonetheless, they are precious and essential to the instinctive reasoning of the author.
Time is not immobile and the subjects do not seem fixed. We will not be surprised to see them prolong their action. On the contrary, time passes by slowly, life passes in front of our eyes as in a film to better move us deeply. Riego van Wersch points his finger towards these beings, benumbed by their everyday life and resigned to their condition.
This is it indeed, a poignant racking evidence making us unsteady in front of these snapshots: The inevitable solitude of man.
With the same urge, where poetry meets cynicism, served by an extremely controlled graphic design, the tough acuity of his gaze shows us what he perceives best of our human condition. These photographs are not intellectual. They rather represent feelings.
Riego van Wersch, 37 years old, lives in Paris. He tackles photography precociously at the age of 11 in an autodidactic way. Amnesty International Riego Van Wersch exhibits his work at the age of 17 at Auvers sur Oise, France. Graduate of the Gobelins, photography section, at 24, he becomes Director of Photography, an sign the picture of the international advertising campaigns.

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Awards and Recognition
_ Article in YATZER (art,design,architecture....) website magazine 05/03/2010.
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