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Florian Ruiz

The white contamination
About Florian Ruiz

Born in 1972, Florian Ruiz lives and works in Japan. Florian Ruiz is a French photographer who creates projects to express the atmospheres, feelings, and sensations of desolate places. In his recent works, he seeks to test the boundaries of photography by challenging its ability to render an image of what is invisible to the eye by means of time and distortion. He uses assembly, collage, super impression; processes that reinvent and transform the actual landscape. He portrays the unexpected, the fortuitous, and the deformed as a multiple reality. His work, on imaging the radioactive contamination, has been awarded several prizes (Sony World Photography Award, Felix Schoeller Award, Talent Award) and was exhibited in Paris Photo, Photo LA, Art Paris, Somerset House, Aipad.

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  • Art Photography Awards 2018
  • Earth Awards 2015
  • The White Contamination
    Florian Ruiz
    At first glance, these artful landscapes might recall Japanese woodblock prints, yet these complex conceptual photographs offer a memorable vision of current areas of nature still affected by the Fukushima disaster.
  • Fukushima: Invisible Pain
    Florian Ruiz
    Finalist, LensCulture Earth Awards: Long exposures and staggered superimposition create this contemplative series—in the vein of Japanese engravings—that offer a medium between the visible and the invisible and challenge us to see beyond the physical landscape to the radiation that lingers unseen.
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