Régis Colombo

Born on April 2, 1969. Régis Colombo is an independent photographer since 1993.After several reports throughout the world, he settled in Switzerland where he lives.Its photographs were published in many magazines, being among the best.Traveller of thousand destinations and author of several books: Memories of the vineyards of Geneva - Portraits of Asia - Zanzibar - Sahara - Swiss vineyards.The artist is today well known in its field.Rgis Colombo cross the world with the aim of composing timeless " frescos" with multiple glances. Each picture is a travel inside the travel.Admired for over a decade for his photos of Indochina, the Sahara and China, Swiss photographer Rgis Colombo has come out from behind the lens for his new and innovative digital fusion project. Buddhist monk Mathieu Ricard, the Dalai Lama's famous official interpreter, said in praise of his pictures that they are "a tribute to the inner beauty of people and the sparkling light of places. "This new collection is very likely to confirm his high praise.The artist has in effect reinterpreted his own negatives, gleaned through years of travel, in an exclusive collection titled "Transparencies."A single layer of successive, static blended images, Colombo's works are ...

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“Transparencies”, a report from the photographer’s imaginary world
The images from the “Transparencies” series borrow both from the pictorial tradition and from the very modern photographic process of digital fusion.
Régis Colombo’s compositions owe a debt both to reportage - with moments of eternity captured by the photographer - and to the waking dream - in which the traveller’s good and bad memories are all mixed up - and recreate the quintessence of the places he has visited, such as New York, Dubai, Paris, Istanbul and Zanzibar. The dozens of images assembled into large pixel frescoes always have more than one story to tell. Seen from a distance, they draw the eye, hypnotise it like a neon light, and then imprint themselves upon the memory with all the power of a flashbulb. When you draw near to them, they reveal a never-ending stream of little anecdotes, curiosities glimpsed, deliberately provocative winks and smiles.
Colombo’s images are different each time you immerse your gaze in them and they transport those who linger over them to the ends of the Earth, at the same time giving them the most fabulous of all the freedoms offered by travel, the freedom of the imagination.
Each mural is made only with pictures of the pla...