Richard Pak

About Richard Pak

Richard Pak (FR, 1972) lived in London from 1999 to 2003 before returning to settle in Paris. Working as an independent photographer since 1998, his photographs are part of both public and private collections, including La Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) and the Collection Neuflize OBC.

He has collaborated with numerous press magazines and newspapers, including The Independent Magazine, The Observer, Le Monde, Libération, and L’express, Eyemazing, Réponses Photo, and the Long Cours magazine.

Pak’s distinctive photographic approach combines documentary-style images with artistic forms, showcasing significant freedom in his treatment of subjects.

Photographic approach of Richard Pak

"Organized in series or episodes, Richard Pak's work is empirically built, without dogma or program, without systematicity either. However, as with any artist, it is undeniable that the body of work is structured around major concepts and adapted formal research. There has thus emerged, somewhat intuitively, a 'way' specific to Richard Pak. No effects, but intimate relationships, forgetting his own presence to reveal the existence of the other. It is the very idea of photography that is worked on, without a facade of stylistic coherence or an invariant process that validates aesthetics. Here one must be realistic, there symbolic, elsewhere metaphorical—whether the approach is experimental and artistic, classic and documentary, sociological and fictional—Richard Pak asserts his freedom of expression. For what is at stake is underground, in the depths of what shapes his representation of the world: the oceanic feeling, late modernity, the power of emotions, incarnation through the image. The necessity to see living to exist." (Michel Poivert, 2022)

Exhibitions

His work has been exhibited in French and international festivals such as "L’oeil Urbain" in Corbeil-Essonne, "Portrait(s)" in Vichy, Les Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie in Arles, the Noorderlicht Photofestival in the Netherland and PhotoPhnomPenh in Cambodge. In 2023 he participated in the collective exhibition “Melting Islands” at Hangar in Brussels.

Art Book Publications by Richard Pak

Richard Pak has translated his artistic projects into notable publications such as "Saison #31" (FILIGRANES, 2008), "Pursuit" (Sweden, FILIGRANES, 2012), and "Les Frères-Pareils" (FILIGRANES, 2015). These books, more than compilations, serve as standalone creations, enriching the depth of Pak’s photographic projects and artistic experiments.