Presentation
Cyril RUOSO
France
Parrains - Invités
It is behind a camera that Cyril Ruoso knew how to achieve his passion for nature. He travels around the world in search of stories of all hairs, feathers or scales to share since 1989, he was only 19 years old. But an encounter with the orangutans of Borneo will guide his work as a photographer–reporter to the tropical forests and especially to our primates cousins as evidenced by his published books :« Etre singe » de La Martinière (2002) « L’homme est un singe comme les autres » Hachette Pratique (2008) « Grands singes » Empreintes & Territoires (2008) « Les singes » la Martinière Jeunesse (2010). But primates are not his only interest. Through his photos, he also takes us into the privacy of a bestiary sometimes exotic sometimes familiar, Komodo dragons and swallows. Humans are not absent from his photographic work: he shares us the daily lives of researchers as well as those who fight to preserve our environment and explores the complex links that join us to nature. A cooperation with the TFT (The Forest Trust) sent him in the Baka territory in Cameroon and this work was the subject of a book « Il était une fois la forêt » Fleurus (2009). Awarded for the sixth time in 2019 at the prestigious Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition in the category "urban wildlife". Portfolio in the book « The masters of nature photography » vol 2, wildlife photographer of the year, Natural History Museum (2016) in the book, Cyril collaborates in many french and foreign magazines (National Geographic US, Paris Match, Terra Mater, Figaro Magazine, VSD, Terre Sauvage, Life,...), and in collective books and exhibitions.Exposition
"Beaux d'ailleurs", these exotic ones that question our vision of nature! The movement is consubstantial to life, a mysterious force pushes living beings to explore new territories potentially conducive to their development. On sandstones of tectonic movements, glaciations, movements of other species, life circulates in every direction on the planet. At the geological scale, the map of the distribution of the living is perpetually developing. At least, since the birth of agriculture 11,000 years ago in the Middle East, Homo sapiens have been dragging seeds in their wake to plant or barter. This movement of species on the surface of the globe is intensified and accelerated with our transports. Our perception of these exotics has also evolved, after they have often enchanted us with their differences and interests, today we look at them as alien invaders and suspects. I propose you, in a period when otherness is often perceived as a threat, to take a curious and welcoming look at these “Beaux d'ailleurs”.
Galerie
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- Torue de floride – Cyril RUOSO
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- Frelon asiatique – Cyril RUOSO
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- silure glane – Cyril RUOSO
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- surmulot – Cyril RUOSO
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- Perruche à collier – Cyril RUOSO
