About Oliver Valsecchi
Oliver Valsecchi, born in Paris in 1979, now lives and performs in Toulouse, where he analyzed at ETPA Pictures Faculty in 2007.
As a teen, Oliver’s key fascination was music, by which he found photography immediately after using photographs to illustrate his record sleeves, even though just before enrolling in pictures school, he explored the medium by getting self-portraits.
Through his academic decades, Oliver could experiment with light and the human body, which later grew to become the outburst of his operate. In 2010, his series Dust got him observed and received him the Hasselblad Masters Award in 2012. Motivated by the chaos principle, this sequence depicts evanescences from Renaissance’s chiaroscuro. His twisted bodies are draped in a cloud of dust, supplying them a surreal,nebula-like component, a symbol of delivery and dying.
Photographic Profession and Series
Following the Dust sequence, Oliver will afterwards appear to a spectacular reflection of the human system as a result of lots of other bodies of operate. Composition, geometry, psychology, philosophy, and empathy are all echoed in his people. Oliver makes an attempt to portray human sentiments by means of their bodies, wherever gentle plays an influential position way too. He adjusts the correct tunes and mind-set by shadows and contrasts as if composing tunes.
Light-weight and physique are Oliver’s applications to depict humans’ sensitive, fascinating and profound character.
From setting up to composing, from deciding on the issue to the image shoot, Oliver relies on instinct and instinct. As his images evoke dying, delivery, and maternity, all inevitable human conditions, he lets his inspiration to move with the identical organic flow.
