PHILIPPE RIBIERE - France
Contacts: handigrimpe@yahoo.fr Website www.philipperibiere.net/
Objectif Eye
Objectif Eye
Momie
Momie
Dust of lightness
Dust of lightness
Butterfly Hands
Butterfly Hands
Prisoner of the freedom
Prisoner of the freedom
Selfish portrait
Selfish portrait
About his Art
My name is Philippe RIBIERE. In 12th March 1977 I was born in Martinique with the Rubinstein-Taby Syndrome and abandoned in an orphanage. After these years, I was adopted by a french family...So years spent and I discovered the climbing sport to express my energy. Step after step, I became the first professional handicapped climber who promoted during 15 years the Paraclimbing category for the OlympicGames and I became the pioneer for other physically challenged persons. Between the sport, I practiced the photography to look forward the beauty I did not have on the time before my slovenian filmmaker made a movie called WILD ONE .
One day, in 2016, during a film festival, I met 2 photographers, Stephane Noël and Patrick Leclerc who convinced me to test the studio room.
Then this date, I focused my photography in the black and white portrait cause I feel more complicated with the lights composition, the faces expressions, the compositions to compare at the natural light. In plus, even do, there are professional therapist, I found out that women are more comfortable with me cause I know what is the difference view with my handicap position or costume.
This is how I practice my photography passion to combine the reality of life against the artificial one which I push a little bit harder with my treatment of black and white composure.".