Photographer Patrick Cariou and his 20 years of work

Waves, jungle, desert – nothing stops Patrick Cariou when the photographer goes hunting. New motifs are his goal, people who fascinate him because they defy nature – and modernism. The result is not just portraits, but stories captured in pictures.

Patrick Cariou Photography — “Yes Rasta” acts as an appeal – and as the title of one of Cariou’s first series.

Works 1985-2005

Surfers, travelers, Rastafarians: Frenchman Patrick Cariou photographs them all. He is fascinated by cultures and especially the people in them, whom he brings in front of his lens and portrays so carefully that they become protagonists. His work from twenty years of traveling around the world can now be found in a book that we are only too happy to pick up and put on the shelf.
Patrick Cariou, “Works 1985-2005”, hardcover, 228 pages, approx. 60.- (buy here)

Want to know what goes on in a photographer’s head when they press the shutter release? Then read the interview with photographer Simon Lohmeyer here.