José Risso
Bio
José Risso (Uruguay 1970) is attracted by the rustic Uruguayan rural landscape. He works with analog photography in a classic formalism, both in practice and in the aesthetic look. Interested in laboratory processes, he usually performs the copying of his black and white photographs in his own laboratory. With a vocation for solitary landscapes, he portrays places detained in time, preserving and rescuing memory, with a contemporary reading of painting masters such as Pedro Figari or Nicolás García Uriburu.
His work has been exhibited among others, at the Cultural Center of Spain in Montevideo, Zorrilla Museum, Atchugarry Manantiales Foundation, FOLA Buenos Aries, Lima, Angola, Sweden and Vienna.
Statement
Photography is my medium of artistic expression. I usually copy the photographs manually since I only produce them with film and medium format cameras. To someone who is starting out, I would tell him/her to take a single photo of something, then take a single photo of another subject, and then look at them, and repeat the same procedure, trying to get a better result each time.
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
