HARRY GRUYAERT - Interview 2017

Born in Belgium in 1941, Harry Gruyaert studied photography and film-making.
He made a few films as director of photography for Flemish television before turning to colour photographs in his adopted Paris in the early 1960s. By the end of the 1970s he had travelled to the United States, India, Egypt, Japan and Morocco. The latter was a revelation to Gruyaert whose images of the country were later published in two different books. In the early 1970s, while he was living in London, he worked on a series of colour television screen shots later to become the “TV Shots” series, now part of the Centre Pompidou collections. Around the same period he also photographed his homeland and produced two books, “Made in Belgium” and “Roots." In 1982, he joined Magnum Photos.
Among other important works, the two editions of "Rivages (Edges)," published in 2003 and 2008, are the testimony of how Gruyaert likes to work in different environments, with contrasting light and colour. A retrospective of his work was held in Paris in 2015, and he is currently working on a major show due to open at the FOMU in Antwerp in 2018. He lives in Paris and is represented by Gallery 51 in Antwerp.

[@WilliamDeminguet]

One of my favorite photographers

[@petrsimak9555]

One of the few real masters when it comes to color photography. Love his work. Thanks for the interview.

[@rawvoltairephoto]

Amazing 👌 📸 Images

[@petertasker1540]

Blew me away. Totally get him. One of the very best. So special. Thank you.

[@user-ln2on4ig4g]

Trots op mijn landgenoot. Fantastische kunstwerken.

[@ivanosrin2126]

Wonderful photos and insights - only 11 likes ?!! Colour and light ......

[@smalltalk.productions9977]

thank you for the effort and the sharing. "it's the relationship to life." thumbs up.

[@jackyleecs]

Thank you for this. A master of colour photography.

[@joshatyt]

Terrific video of terrific photographer

[@bowenisland100]

I just received his "India" book. I am amazed...so excellent. He doesn't mention his use of black, which I find powerful.

[@andrewhoulihan7940]

Beautiful. Love from Ireland 🇮🇪

[@linjicakonikon7666]

Really outstanding presentation of an extraordinary photographer.

[@camali_ch]

Beautiful interview!

[@sergiufanica4547]

Beautiful

[@enochristmann1919]

thanks for sharing this interview

[@progressocriativo]

GREAT

[@nocommentnoname1111]

He says a lot of the same things HBC said. Remarkable.

[@nickfanzo]

He now uses canon with a zoom lens and photoshop for color manipulation, for all of your outward of there 🤪🤪

[@martinhall932]

It's a way of breathing