Bernard Russo

French street photographer.For several decades, Bernard Russo has been honing his craft through intensive travel to a peak of five international destinations each year. At first glance Bernard Russo’s work appears to be street photography, yet if you look further you see a a study of geometry, a little whimsey, capturing "the decisive moment,” and certainly a sense of place and its people.
Watching him work is pure entertainment as he uses his slight frame to disappear into the bustle where his subjects do not even realize their common moments have become his captured art. He is patient and will let life play out in front of him until the time is right to press the shutter. His career in photography may have begun too late to dominate the world’s publications but his work can stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the great eyes in photography.
Having been born in Algeria where he spent the first ten years of his life, Bernard Russo has developed a keen interest for Muslim countries. He has repeteadly visited and documented such countries as Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Morrocco, Iran, the UAE, Oman, India, Indonesia, Uzbekistan, Palestine and Turkey, with a view to educating western audiences out of their sometimes sterotyped views about Isla...

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