About Oliver Valsecchi

Oliver Valsecchi, born in Paris in 1979, now lives and works in Toulouse, the place he studied at ETPA Images College in 2007.

As a young person, Oliver’s most important curiosity was music, by means of which he found pictures after taking images for example his file sleeves, though earlier than enrolling in pictures college, he explored the medium by taking self-portraits. 

Throughout his tutorial years, Oliver might experiment with gentle and the human physique, which later grew to become the outburst of his work. In 2010, his sequence Mud acquired him seen and gained him the Hasselblad Masters Award in 2012. Impressed by the chaos idea, this sequence depicts evanescences from Renaissance’s chiaroscuro. His twisted our bodies are draped in a cloud of mud, giving them a surreal,nebula-like facet, an emblem of delivery and demise. 

Photographic Profession and Sequence

Following the Mud sequence, Oliver will later come to an impressive reflection of the human physique by means of many different our bodies of labor. Composition, geometry, psychology, philosophy, and empathy are all echoed in his characters. Oliver makes an attempt to painting human sentiments by means of their our bodies, the place gentle performs an influential function too. He adjusts the fitting tunes and angle by means of shadows and contrasts as if composing music. 

Gentle and physique are Oliver’s instruments to depict people’ delicate, charming and profound nature. 

From planning to composing, from selecting the topic to the photograph shoot, Oliver depends on intuition and instinct. As his photographs evoke demise, delivery, and maternity, all inevitable human situations, he permits his inspiration to maneuver with the identical pure circulation.

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