'Searching for your Shadow' is an exploration of my mother's home district, the 15th arrondissement, in Paris. The work is an exploration touching on identity, history, memory, and geography.
The work is influenced by the writings of French Nobel prize-winning author, Patrick Modiano whose writings are the fragmented, lateral stories of memories, history, and the urban geography of Paris. Crucially, Modiano's characters usually attempt, and fail, to make some sense of memories of the past. This failure is implicit in their search, as it is in mine.
'Confluence' is the third photobook in “an unanticipated trilogy”.
Chris Rydlewski has lived and worked in Bristol (UK) as a freelance photographer and photography lecturer.
Recently retired Chris is now concentrating on personal projects, mainly based in France, which he has visited regularly for many years.
'Confluence’ is his third France-based photobook, which mines his 17-year archive of images from the Creuse. It explores this region in central France using 34 diptychs to create “a cumulative sense of place”.
Chris also exhibits his work regularly, both in the UK and France.
Awards Winner of Fuji Open Portrait Award 1998
PX3 Bronze Award Book/Monograph 2021 for 'Searching for your Shadow'
BIFA (Budapest International Foto Awards) Honourable Mention in the Book/Fine Art 2021 for 'Searching for your Shadow'
