Magnum photographer and renowned colorist Harry Gruyaert has been roaming the world for over forty years. In his new book Between Worlds, the artist assembles his archives to deliver the essence of his visual writing: a luminous alchemy at the service of image immersion.
Tipping over into photography, dissolving the boundaries between exterior and interior spaces, closed worlds and those open to elsewhere, forgetting yourself in suspended time… No matter the location (stores, train stations, cafés, hotel rooms…), country (Europe, Middle East, Asia, USA, Africa…) or era (from the 1970s to the present day): the only thing that matters is the pleasure of getting lost. In Between Worlds, Harry Gruyaert recounts the illusion of the world through the play of transparency and the mise en abyme of his images.
A text by David Campany examines the photographer’s singular approach and positioning, which situates him “in the space of the threshold (where) we are balanced, neither inside nor outside, present but in neither place”.
