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Hans Silvester (2019)

Hans Silvester (born October 2, 1938 in Lörrach ) is a German photographer and environmental activist.

Life

Hans Silvester's career as a photographer began with his first camera, which his parents gave him for his 14th birthday. He combined his passion for photography with his interest in travel reports. After graduating in photography from the Freiburg industrial school in 1955, he traveled all over Europe, especially the Camargue . There, in 1960, his first success was his reportage with texts by Jean Giono . In 1962 he settled in Provence in the village of Lioux , from where he continues to travel the world: South America (for a report of a humanitarian nature), United States (where he stayed for six months), Central America, Japan, Portugal, Egypt, Tunisia, Hungary, Peru, Italy and Spain.

He joined the French photo agency Rapho in 1965 and opened the first issue of Geo magazine in 1977 with a report on a village in the French Basque Country . New Year's Eve is both a nature photographer on various subjects such as pigeons, horses in the Camargue, birds, cats and dogs from the Greek islands, as well as a photographer of old traditions such as pétanque, scarecrows, kites.

Silvester has been using his work since 1980 to campaign for environmental issues. He photographed all the natural parks in Europe, denounced the devastating effects of deforestation in the Amazon, published a report under the title la rivière assassinée in Geo on the Calavon River , which gained notoriety in France for its industrial pollution in Apt , and recorded the deforestation in North America in photographs Woods.

Recently, New Year's Eve has mainly been working on topics such as the photographic recording of the life of women in the desert and a photo reportage about the people of the Omo river valley in southern Ethiopia .

Exhibitions

• 2014: Festival L'oeil en Seyne Villa Tamaris, La Seyne-sur-Mer
• 2014: Les maisons des Benchs , Galerie Pascal Lainé, Ménerbes , France
• 2012: De la Provence d'hier à l'Afrique immémoriale , Château de Gordes , France
• 2011: Donga Gallery DNR, L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue , France
• 2011: Natural Fashion: Art & the Body, Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, Tampa , Florida, USA
• 2010/11: Marlborough Gallery, New York , USA
• 2010: Look Again, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, USA
• 2009/2010: Galerie Marlborough Monaco, Monte-Carlo , Monaco
• 2009: Les filles de Mirabai, Galerie de l'Etrave, Thonon-les-Bains , France
• 2009: Polka Gallery, Paris , France
• 2009: 4 regards sur l'Eau , with Laurent Gayte, Jean-François Mutzig and Alain Gualina, in Gréoux-les-Bains , France
• 2008: Les peuples de l'Omo Bagiliba - 7th African Festival, Callian , Fayence and Seillans , France
• 2008: Visa pour l'Image , Le Grand Rex, Paris, France
• 2008: The Angkor Photography Festival, Angkor , Cambodia
• 2008: La Maison-près-Bastille, Paris, France
• 2007/2008: Tribus de l'Omo / Masques du Gabonau, Musée de l'Hôtel-Dieu Mantes-la-Jolie , France
• 2007/2008: Les filles de Mirabai, Château de la Tour-d'Aigues , France
• 2007: Les photographes professionnels au Salon de la Photo, Paris Expo, Paris, France
• 2007: Les peuples de l'Omo, Galerie de la rue Lafayette, La Gacilly , France
• 2007: 11ème festival de la photographie de voyage et d'aventures, Honfleur , France
• 2007: Hans Silvester, Photographies, Tour Philippe Le Bel, Villeneuve-lès-Avignon , France
• 2006: Festival International de la Photo Animalière et de Nature, Montier-en-Der , France
• 2006: Les tribus de l'Omo, Château-Musée Boulogne-sur-Mer , France
• 2005: Hans Silvester, Photographies, Villa Tamaris Center d'art, La Seyne-sur-Mer , France
• 2005: Alguien nos mira (FNAC photographic collection), MuViM, Valencia , Spain
• 2004/2005: Provence, here, toujours, Maison René Char, L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue , France
• 2004: Images entre histoire et poésie (FNAC photographic collection), La Conciergerie, Paris, France

Awards

• 2012: Officier dans l'ordre national français des Arts et des Lettres .
• 2002: Prize for the most beautiful book of the year: L'eau, entre Ciel et Terre, Éditions de La Martinière, Paris.
• 1992 Prize for the most beautiful book of the year: Les peuples de l'Omo, Éditions de La Martinière, Paris.
• 1976: Aigle d'Or at the Nice Book Fair
• 1975: Bronze medal at the Leipzig Book Fair

Publications

• Derrière l'objectif de Hans Silvester. Éditions Hoëbeke, 2011, ISBN 978-2-84230-410-2 .
• Animal portraits. Chevaux de Camargue. Éditions de La Martinière, 2011, ISBN 978-2-7324-4329-4 .
• Tsiganes et gitans. Editions de La Martinière, 2011, ISBN 978-2-7324-4512-0 .
• Fenêtre sur l'Afrique. Éditions de La Martinière, 2010, ISBN 978-2-7324-4182-5 .
• Un monde de chats. Éditions de La Martinière, 2010, ISBN 978-2-7324-4087-3 .
• Les habits de la nature. [Photo series], Éditions de La Martinière, 2007, ISBN 978-2-7324-3668-5 .
• Les peuples de l'Omo. [Photo series], Éditions de La Martinière, 2006, ISBN 978-2-7324-3444-5 .
• C'était ailleurs. Editions de La Martinière, 2006, ISBN 978-2-7324-3336-3 .
• Un amour de chat. Editions de La Martinière, 2006, ISBN 978-2-7324-3403-2 .
• Les chats du soleil. Editions de La Martinière, 2005, ISBN 978-2-7324-3228-1 .
• Arbres: Histoires de paysages en Provence. Aubanel, 2004, ISBN 978-2-7006-0344-6 .
• C'était here. Foreword by Claude Michelet and text by Marc Dumas. Editions de La Martinière, 2004, ISBN 978-2-7324-3141-3 .
• Les écrits du vent. Editions de La Martinière, 2003, ISBN 978-2-7324-2980-9 .
• Chevaux de Camargue. Editions de La Martinière, 2002, ISBN 978-2-7324-2873-4 .
• Provence terre de lavande. Éditions de La Martinière, 2000, ISBN 978-2-7324-2097-4 and Aubanel, 2004 ISBN 978-2-7006-0333-0 .
• Les chats. Editions de La Martinière, 2000, ISBN 978-2-7324-2637-2 .
• Classic Japan. With Shuichi Kato and Detlef Foljanty . 1996, ISBN 978-3-8923-4074-4 .

Article (selection)

• Conservation: Wilderness in Andalusia. In: Geo-Magazin. Hamburg 1979, 12, pp. 100-122. "Cota de Doñana". ISSN  0342-8311

Web links

• Hans Silvester on the website of Galerie Pascal Laine

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Hans Silvester on the website grands-reporters.com
2. ↑ His five years of work on horses in the Camargue earned him a prize at the Leipzig Book Fair.
3. ^ Article by Jean-Paul Mari at grands-reporters.com