François Besch

François Besch (born 1963) is a Luxembourgish photographer and artist.

Hipstamatic self-portrait

Life and work

Besch was born on 11 April 1963 in Esch-sur-Alzette. The autodidact has been living and working in Bivange since 2006.

In Besch's nature and landscape shots, his primary interest is in conveying feelings or moods. Besch has also made portrait, street and experimental photography since the 1980s. He uses classic cameras and also a smartphone.[1] In 2011, Besch hosted an exhibition in Luxembourg in which the photographs were created using the Hipstamatic application for the iPhone.

In 2013 POST Luxembourg[2] acquired five of his works – portraits of wild mushrooms – which were used on a series of postage stamps. They were the first official postage stamps in the world to use photographs which were not taken with conventional cameras.

Besch also makes portraits of personalities using a smartphone, among them other photographers John G. Morris, Lucien Clergue[3] and David Hamilton.

Award

In March 2017 Besch received the Monika von Boch-Preis für Fotografie[4][5]

Exhibitions
  • 2013: Von Glückspilzen und anderen Lichtwelten, Galerie Clairefontaine (Espace 2), Luxemburg[6][7]
  • 2013: The Story of the Creative, See.Me Exhibition Space, New York City
  • 2014: Salon d'automne du Cercle artistique de Luxembourg
  • 2015: BeNeLux, Galerie bij de Boeken, Ulft, Netherlands[8]
  • 2015: Six Lives in Photography, Photomeetings Luxembourg[9][10]
  • 2016: Luxembourg Art Week 2016, Salon d'automne du Cercle artistique de Luxembourg
  • 2017: François Besch, Hipstamatics, Museum Schloss Fellenberg, Merzig, Germany[11][12]

References
  1. Whitewall Magazine
  2. Book of stamps – Luxembourg Mushrooms
  3. Porträt of Lucien Clergue on the website of France Inter
  4. Profifoto Magazin
  5. Saarbrücker Zeitung
  6. "Tageblatt". Archived from the original on 2 February 2014. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
  7. Revue Archived 2 February 2014 at the Wayback Machine (PDF; 4,3 MB)
  8. Galerie bij de Boeken
  9. Delano Archived 29 September 2015 at the Wayback Machine
  10. Revue
  11. Pfälzischer Merkur
  12. Tageblatt
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