Christian Riis Ruggaber

Thanks to the Images Vevey Research & Developpement Grant 2011/2012, supported by Nestlé, Christian Riis Ruggaber undertakes a project centered around water, a fundamental resource for life and a significant socio-economic and geopolitical issue today. His work Contemplatio – The Act of Noting and Recording / Chapter II explores the unique relationship between light and surface in photography along a watershed in the Scottish Highlands, a landscape carved by lochs and crossed by numerous rivers and streams. The series invites the viewer to engage in simple, contemplative observation of these large-format prints.

Thanks to the Images Vevey Research & Developpement Grant 2011/2012, supported by Nestlé, Christian Riis Ruggaber undertakes a project centered around water, a fundamental resource for life and a significant socio-economic and geopolitical issue today. His work Contemplatio – The Act of Noting and Recording / Chapter II explores the unique relationship between light and surface in photography along a watershed in the Scottish Highlands, a landscape carved by lochs and crossed by numerous rivers and streams. The series invites the viewer to engage in simple, contemplative observation of these large-format prints.

Christian Riis Ruggaber focuses on photographing objects and landscapes to explore the ways in which each of us receives an image and the message it conveys. Produced both in the studio and outdoors, his various series gathered in the Contemplatio exhibition present everyday materials and subjects void of any reference to environment and scale. The intentional decontextualization is an invitation to focus on the photographed subject and to explore the play on form, surface and light.