Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Sophie Ristelhueber

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a French photographer Sophie Ristelhueber.

Last updated on September 30, 2024.

Sophie Ristelhueber is a French photographer. Her photographs concern the human impact of war. Ristelhueber has photographed extensively in the Balkans and Middle East. Her work has been exhibited at the Tate Modern and the National Gallery of Canada.

French - Photographer | Born: 1949

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My real interest is traveling the world's tormented places and revealing the scars and the traces on the ground. I am dedicated to the earth.

Sophie Ristelhueber

I have these obsessions that I do not completely understand, with the deep mark, with the ruptured surface, with scars and traces, traces that human beings are leaving on the earth. It is not a comment on the environment... it is metaphysical.

Sophie Ristelhueber

What prompted me to make these pictures [of bomb-cratered roads] was the impression that the ground was ripped by the shock, that it was swallowing itself.

Sophie Ristelhueber

We have at our disposal modern techniques for seeing everything, apprehending everything, yet we see nothing.

Sophie Ristelhueber