The self-taught, French-born artist Pierre Gonnord (b. 1963), now based in Spain, has enjoyed great success throughout Europe for years, arriving in the United States as a master portraitist of the dark underbelly of global civilization. Progressing cautiously, carefully, and with great patience, Gonnord slowly makes his way into communities that live off the grid, nomadic populations, and worlds not yet illuminated by the buzzing glow of technology, investing time among coal miners, punks, immigrants, and gypsies, and translating his experience of their lives into one camera click, one stunning portrait. His landscapes, too, represent the desecrated, unearthly environments inhabited by those on the fringe of civilized society: mountain slopes choked with toxic plumes of smoke; desiccated plains ablaze from mineral fires. ... http://www.hastedkraeutler.com/artists/pierre-gonnord/selected-works_1
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