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Misha de Ridder / Photography Book Wilderness / Reviews
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“Misha de Ridder's photographs demonstrate an experience of nature and quite simply, though he won't admit it, the beauty of color photography.”
- Shane Lavalette / Journal blog, 2007
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“Reality is more than what the photographer finds, it is what he or she seeks. For Misha de Ridder and Marnix Goossens the reality within immediate
reach is the point of departure, but both emphasise specific elements of it in such a way as to bestow a sense of the surreal, compelling us to question
our habit of taking photos at face value.”
- Catalogue Link, Hripsimé Visser, curator Stedelijk Museum, 2003
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"Misha de Ridder
photographed various components that join to constitute the landscape
rather than the landscape itself. He thus presents The Tree, frontal,
earthly and unapproachable like a ruler in the melting snow, The Boulder,
scorched bluish grey after a raging forest fire and The Field, with a
golden glimmer in the morning light. ... In essence Misha is not engaged in
landscape photography but in portrait photography. He makes photographic
portraits of striking elements of nature that he comes across in this
landscape."
- Marcel Feil, curator Foam Photography Museum Amsterdam, 2003
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"Hij
slaagt erin 'anders' naar de natuur te kijken. Zijn foto's zijn minitieus
geschoten en perfect belicht, maar toch niet gelikt. Wel mooi, maar niet té
mooi."
- Gert Jonkers, Volkskrant Magazine 31/5/2003
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"‘We want to escape not to nature, but just to an attractive idea of it.
The photograph Red Rock Canyon (2001) by Misha de Ridder captures this sublimely. We see the characteristic rocks of the Grand Canyon,
with a concrete slap in the foreground on which a red pick nick chair stands next to a metal BBQ grill. It exudes the typical American
idea of the wilderness experience: consuming large, blackened pieces of meat in the outdoors. Nature as background scenery for the American
way of life."
- Xandra de Jongh, Free Eye Magazine, 2003
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This publication was generously supported by The Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design & Architecture and the Amsterdam Fund for The Arts.
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