Pierre Gonnord

Silently staring, yet speaking volumes at the same time, the people that Gonnord photographs are the result of an encounter in which the other, the real person or the subject of his portraits, are truly recognized, with the result that the viewer is left curious about each story behind the face. With a nod to the history of art the photographer captures moments when it is as if individuals have, as Marcella Beccaria in her essay suggests, ‘temporarily abandoned their place in the paintings of Caravaggio, Goya or Ribera'. Thirty-five full-page colour photographs are presented bound in a hardback edition.