Portraits in a City Photography by Rico Michel
Dreams don’t have titles.”
Man Ray
images © 2023-2025 Rico Michel
There is no objective truth in photography. The image is never more than a fragment of reality, a truncated, momentary, and incomplete point of view. The image is subjective, and its truth is always multiple, like that of the observer, or unfathomable, like that of the artist. Read
images © 2023-2024 Rico Michel
“Déjà vu” is a brief experience during which time seems to have been put into a loop. Read
Sorry, this entry is only available in Français.
Sorry, this entry is only available in Français.
“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.