Conquistador: Nicolas Savary

Nicolas Savary, a Swiss photographer, fortuitously came into possession of the archive as part of a research project during an artistic residency in South America in 2014. This photobook works as a catalogue of a big exhibition at the Musee de l'Elysee and Musee Gruerien, both in Switzerland. The book include reprints and facsimiles of archive images and original documents as well as ethnographic and heritage objects. The photographs are the work, on the one hand, of Louis de Boccard and other Swiss photographer living in Argentina a the same time like Samuel Rimathe and on the other of Nicolas Savary. Savary proposes a contemporary approach with reference to the archive. Examination of the documents reveals that certain themes are linked to contemporary issues like ecology and the tourist industry, urban development and the situation of indigenous people. AUTHOR: Nicolas Savary (1971) is an artist-photographer graduated at the ECAL (Lausanne School of Art), living and working in Switzerland. He is professor at the School of Photography in Vevey (CEPV) and participate in the program of the art gallery standard-deluxe in Lausanne. His work has been presented in Europe and Switzerland at the Musee de l'Elysee / Lausanne, the Photoforum Pasqu'art / Bienne or the Geneva Center for Photography.