WILDER MANN - Charles Fréger

For two years in 2010 and 2011, Charles Fréger criss-crossed Europe from north to south, from Finland to Portugal via Romania, Germany and Slovenia, in search of the figure of the savage as it survives in local folk traditions. These images, like archetypes, half-man half-beast, animal or vegetable, resurface from the depths of time on the occasion of ritual festivals, pagan or religious, celebrating the cycle of the seasons, fat days, carnival or Easter eve. By becoming bears, goats, stags or boars, straw men, devils or steel-jawed monsters, these men celebrate the cycle of life and the seasons. Their costumes, made of animal or vegetable skins, set with bones or belted with bells, topped with horns or antlers, are astonishing in their diversity and beauty of form.

The photographic series is accompanied by a text by Robert McLiam Wilson. Since its first publication in 2012, this book is currently in its fourth edition.

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