Rico Michel – Page 5 – Portraits in a City

Author: Rico Michel

Born in 1967 in the cosmopolitan city of Montreal, Éric Rico Michel is a photographer, graphic designer, and musician. Since the 1990s, he has concurrently worked in design studios, as a songwriter and guitar player with local groups, while pursuing creative projects in interactive arts and in photography. These seemingly separate paths eventually rub off on each other, trading influences, broadening the spectrum to form an experience that draws from both the rational and the creative side of the mind.

Rico has created a vector font for graphic arts magazine Rectangle (1987), published an album of original music with group Les Michels (1995), produced interactive 360° tours for Google Maps (2014), directed short film Midsummer Reverie (2017), and has participated in collective and solo art shows as a digital artist and as a photographer (2017–).

In today’s virtualized world, light-sensitive film has in itself become somewhat of a myth. It is a fragile object, a mysterious anachronism seemingly endowed with time-traveling powers.

The extra-long lasting flavor

Most of the time, taking photographs on analog film won’t be your wisest, most practical choice. Although the negative is a real, physical object, its qualities are mostly intangible; could this only be a fascination for a certain mystique?

Personally, I simply have more love for the analog rendering of film. One thing is for certain, film doesn’t speak of things that are happening right now. Film is the anti-instantaneous, the extra-long lasting flavor.
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