INDIA, an exhibition by Paolo Roversi
INDIA

PAOLO ROVERSI
Leica Gallery Paris
From November 9th, 2023 to January 27, 2024

Vernissage, on November 10, 2023 - 6.30 pm

Galerie Leica presents an exhibition of Paolo Roversi's photographs taken in India.

Paolo Roversi is a photographer best known for his fashion work in the studio, using large-format cameras and Polaroids, but he has rarely photographed outdoors. These previously unseen images therefore hold a special place in his work. 

Paolo ROVERSI

These are travel photos taken during stays between 1989 and 1991, landscapes, portraits, snapshots taken from a bus or while wandering the streets, camera slung around the neck. 

Paolo ROVERSI

Opposite are images taken for the 1989 summer collection by Italian couturier Romeo Gigli, with whom Paolo Roversi has collaborated since 1985. Model Kirsten Owen poses in delicately transparent outfits. Against dark, moonlit backgrounds, her luminous skin is revealed in fragile portraits.

Used to working in color since his early days, Paolo Roversi would never have imagined photographing India in black and white. He used Kodak Ektachrome 200 and 400 ISO film. His images convey intense, deep and subtle colors, evoking the flowers to be found on every street corner and in every temple, and weaving together melodies and smells with a gentleness and abandon that are typical of India.