Description
Art, travel, landscapes and solidarity united by photography. Passionate about painting during his childhood and adolescence, he develops a facet of emotional sensitivity and visual perception that he exercises on his travel experiences. He began his research and photographic projects in search of the beauty and grandeur of the planet's most impressive landscapes. places already visited and to be explored. In his short career, Richard Le Manz has received numerous international awards in some of the world's most important competitions. The knowledge, respect and emotional sensitivity gained from his travels, in addition to the management experience involved in his work, helped him launch his first photographic project. Merging solidarity and photography to help Nepal after the 2015 earthquake, the project www.nepalwillriseagain.com is a reality that continues its journey with events and exhibitions raising funds for the Himalayan country. Photography used as a medium to convey beauty, sensations, smell, sound and even the state of mind that leads us to a certain image. However, the artist has understood that photography is not only an artistic activity but a vital experience, a means of liberation to transmit ideas. In his imagination, the artist constructs images that take the viewer into a complex world of subjectivity and emotion. He is more interested in suggestion, in the idea, in the occult, in what is beyond photography. New ideas, new points of view, new reflections, the search for harmony and that intangible part of art through simplicity, composition and physical beauty of the elements that always privilege ideas over aesthetics. He is currently immersed in the creation of conceptual images. These images have different elements that are then edited to establish a dialogue between them. These images manage to stop time and transport the viewer into a complex world of thoughts and reflections.