Walking with Daidō

“I think that the everyday has many slits in its landscape, of which over on the other side, there is another world.”
— Daidō Moriyama

images © 2022-2023 Rico Michel

While reading “Memories of a dog”, I imagined myself as a japanese Kerouac, on the road with Daidō. We were trying to get lost in space-time, in search of this state where, deprived of our usual landmarks, we would come to confuse past, present, memory and imagination. Daidō was not nostalgic. He was not looking for a memorable image, but for the image of memory itself.

Heroes in the making

Comiccon is a theater in which everyone becomes author and actor of their own character.»

These portraits of cosplayers were photographed on medium format analog film during the 2019 and 2022 editions of Montreal Comiccon.

images © 2019-2022 Rico Michel Read

An artist’s headspace

Photographers are realists,
artists are mystics.”

This series portrays significant Montreal artists and their creative environment. Painters, sculptors, writers and musicians are photographed on classic analog film.

images © 2018-2020 Rico Michel Read

Portraits

images © 2018-2023 Rico Michel Read

Live and Well

images © 2018-2022 Rico Michel

“Reveries” Exhibition

I sometimes wonder if these images aren’t dreams I made in a moment of reverie.”

Reveries is a photographic portrait of Montreal and its people shot on classic analog film. The exhibition featured nineteen black and white prints and was held in 2018 at Montreal’s legendary artisan brewery Le Cheval blanc.

Far from a factual record of our time, this collection of ready-made memories was assembled during countless wanderings in the heart of a fleeting city.

The series borrows from the visual language of the photo reportage, but isn’t set in a precise timeline or linked to a particular event.

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Midsummer Reverie

Midsummer Reverie is a short documentary film about midsummer in Montreal, Quebec, shot in July 2017. The idea follows from my work both as a street photographer and as a musician, bringing these labours of love together in one small homage to my home city, Montreal. Camera and Soundtrack by Rico.

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