Raoul Ries
Raoul is a photographer based in London and Luxembourg. He is interested in people and in their desire to shape their environment. The visible traces of the amalgamation of their ambitions, economic realities and the history of the places inform his photographic projects.
Exhibitions
2024-2025: Clervaux (LU), Cité de l’image (‘Còrrec sec’)
2023: Ille-sur-Têt (FR), Centre Catalan d’Art Vivant ‘La Providence’ (‘Còrrec sec’)
2022: Luxembourg (LU), Luxembourg Street Photography Festival (‘The Great Disruption’)
2021: Sedan (FR), Urbi&Orbi festival (‘Sedan: Jusqu’aux limites de la ville’)
2020: Worthing (UK), Colonnade House (‘Comfort Zone Helsinki’)
2019: Luxembourg, LUCA Luxembourg Center for Architecture (‘The New Towns’)
2019: Kuldiga (LV), Art House Kuldiga (‘The New Towns’)
2019: Luxembourg, Galerie Fellner Louvigny (‘Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji’)
2018: Luxembourg, Galerie Clairefontaine (‘Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji’)
2017: London, Embassy of Luxembourg (‘Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji’)
2017: La Selva de Mar (ES), La Selva de l’Art festival (‘Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji’)
2017: Luxembourg, Galerie Clairefontaine (‘Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji’)
2016: London, Photomonth East London (‘Wilderness Tokyo’)
2016: Luxembourg, Quick & Dirty (’99CFA’)
2015: London, Photomonth East London (’99CFA’)
2014: Saint-Louis du Sénégal, Galerie Éthiopiques (‘Le Grand Marabout’)
2014: Haukijärvi (FI), Arteles Creative Center (‘All You Need Is A Red Bicycle’)
2013: Saint-Louis du Sénégal, Centre Waaw (‘Le Grand Marabout’)
2012: London, Ambika P3 (‘Postcards from Ameryka’ series and book)
2011: London, Gallery West ( ‘Postcards from Ameryka’, interim show)
2010: Arles (‘Wanderer’ series, workshop with C. Doury)
2010: Luxembourg, Centre National de l’Audiovisuel (‘Ghosts’, workshop with A. d’Agata)
Books
2020: ‘Comfort Zone Helsinki’, self published
2020: ‘The New Towns’, published by The Velvet Cell
2017: ‘Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji’, published by Hatje Cantz
2015: ‘99 CFA’, self published
2012: ‘Postcards from Ameryka’, self-published
Grants
2018: Bourse CNA – Aide à la création et à la diffusion en photographie, Centre national de l’audiovisuel (CNA), Luxembourg. (For ‘The New Towns’.)
2014: Bourse CNA – Aide à la création et à la diffusion en photographie, Centre national de l’audiovisuel (CNA), Luxembourg. (For ‘Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji’.)
Publications and mentions
Atlas of Places; Clervaux – cité de l’image magazine; Conscientious; Courrier International; Der Greif Magazin; El Pais, EMOP European Month of Photography; European Photography Magazine; FranceFineArt.com; Hyperallergic.com; L’Ardennais; L’Indépendant; Le Parisien; L’Oeil de la Photographie; Libération; Luxemburger Wort; Magazine de Clervaux – Cité de l’image; msn.com; New Landscape Photography; Photomonth East London; Sky; Source Photographic Review; The National (United Arab Emirates); Topic Magazine; Zeitung vum Lëtzebuerger Vollek; 100komma7
Artist Residencies
June 2023: Centre Catalan d’Art Vivant ‘La Providence’, Ille-sur-Têt, France
April-May 2021: Urbi&Orbi festival, Sedan, France
Nov-Dec 2014: Waaw Centre for Art & Design, Saint-Louis du Sénégal
April 2014: Arteles Creative Center, Haukijärvi, Finland
Nov-Dec 2013: Waaw Centre for Art & Design, Saint-Louis du Sénégal
Education
2012: MA Photographic Studies (University of Westminster, London)
2009-11: Several photography workshops
1993: MA in mathematics and economics (Universität Karlsruhe, Germany)