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Eric Lusito is a French documentary style photographer. Self-taught, his earliest influences were the artists Bernd and Hilla Becher and Otto Dix.
He was 12 years old when the fall of the Berlin Wall was broadcast live on television. Moved by the joy and tears of the German people finally reunited, he was intrigued by what could be on the other side of the wall. Eager to know and understand, he began to travel through the former communist bloc in the early 2000s. He then travelled from East Germany to Mongolia and from Poland to Kazakhstan in search of these once hidden military sites that embodied the ambition and power of the USSR. His book «After the Wall-Traces of the Soviet Empire» was published in 2009 by British publisher Dewi Lewis. His photographs have been exhibited in ten countries and covered by the international press such as The Guardian, Financial Times, Le Temps...
Travelling in Ukraine at the end of 2021, he met in the city of Kharkiv a scientist who agreed to show him his laboratory. That reminded him of the comic books of his childhood and was the starting point for a new project to explore this little-known world of science. Few weeks later, the full-scale Russian invasion began.The project has been extended to other countries such as Armenia, Georgia and Romania... At the end of 2023, Eric returned to Kharkiv to find the scientists he had met two years earlier to document their situation.
Book
After the Wall Traces of the Soviet Empire
Introduced by Francis Conte
Professor of Russian & Soviet Culture
University of Paris Sorbonne, France
100 images, 120 pages
Hardback 25 x 30 cm, 9½ x 11½"
ISBN 978 190 458 77 50
Published by Dewi Lewis, UK
Professor of Russian & Soviet Culture
University of Paris Sorbonne, France
100 images, 120 pages
Hardback 25 x 30 cm, 9½ x 11½"
ISBN 978 190 458 77 50
Published by Dewi Lewis, UK
Text ressources
English:
Francis Conte-Eric Lusito or the “sustained” glance-Preface to After the Wall-Dewi Lewis Publishing
Ivan de la Nuez-In the Ruins of the Future
Español:Ivan de la Nuez-En las ruinas del futuro
Français:Francis Conte-Eric Lusito ou le regard soutenu-Préface d'After the Wall-Dewi Lewis Publishing
Entretien avec Yves Marchand, Romain Meffre et Henri Peyre-Galerie Photo
Cristophe Blaser-Musée de l'Elysée-Préface du portfolio Chez Higgins
Hadrien Le Gray-Images Magazine-Les photographes réinventent le paysage
Anne-Marie Monluçon, Anna Saignes et Agathe Salha-Recherches & Travaux-La chute de l’URSS, une fin d’empire
Some exhibitions views
Solo exhibitions
INSTITUTES, A Science Odyssey, Galerie Chez Arthur & Janine, Arles, France, 2024Il est une fois Meknès, Institut Français, Meknes, Marocco, 2013
Traces of the Soviet Empire, Festival Photofolies, Rodez, France, 2012
Traces of the Soviet Empire, Latvian Museum of Photography, Riga, Latvia, 2012
Traces of the Soviet Empire, Quai n°1, Vevey, Switzerland, 2012
Traces of the Soviet Empire, Kaunas Photo Gallery, Lithuania, 2011
Traces of the Soviet Empire, Galerie Chez Arthur & Janine, Arles, France, 2011
L’URSS et la construction du mythe héroïque, University Paris IV Sorbonne, France, 2009
Traces of the Soviet Empire, GIM Galerie im Medienhaven, Bremen, Germany, 2008
Traces of the Soviet Empire, 4th Triennal of Photography, Hamburg, Germany, 2008
Traces of the Soviet Empire, Centre d'Art et de Photographie NegPos, Nîmes, France, 2007
Selected Group Exhibitions
Archifoto, rétrospective, Halles du Scilt, Schitigheim, France, 2019Power and Architecture : Dead space and ruins, Calvert 22 Foundation, London, UK, 2016
Archifoto 12, Architecture sans frontière, Centre culturel français de Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, 2015
Atomic Surplus, Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2013
Histoires et géographies, FRAC Bretagne, Rennes, France, 2013
Archifoto 12, Architecture sans frontière, Haute Ecole des Arts du Rhin (HEAR), Mulhouse, France, 2013
Paul Kopeikin Juried Exhibition, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, Massachusetts, 2012
Young Portfolio Acquisitions 2011, Kyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Kyosato, Japan, 2012
Archifoto 12, Architecture sans frontière, La Chambre, Strasbourg, France, 2012
17ème Salon des Peintres de l’Armée, Musée de l’Armée, Hôtel des Invalides, Paris, France, 2011
Mémoires de pierres, Institut Français, Meknès, Maroc, 2011
Collection hiemale, Galerie Baudoin Lebon, Paris, France, 2010
Prix PX3, Espace Dupon, Paris, France, 2010
Artistes voyageurs, photographies d’Eric Lusito et peintures d’Arnaud d’Aunay, Galerie de La Scala, Paris, France, 2010
Les visas de l’ANI, le Floréal, Paris, France, 2008
Photoreportage, galerie Roger Portugal, Nantes, France, 2006
Projections
12ème Nuit de la Photo, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, 2025Evening projections, Palm Springs Photo Festival, California, 2012
Nuit de la photo-70ème Biennale d’Art Contemporain, Musée des Beaux-arts, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, 2012
Forbidden Places, Bursa Photofest, Turkey, 2011
Slideshow Night, The Annenberg Space of Photography, Los Angeles, California, 2010
Prix Voies Off, Arles, France, 2009
Public collections
FRAC Bretagne, Rennes, FranceK*MoPA, Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Kiyosato, Japan
MuCEM, Museum of Civilisations from Europe and the Mediterranean, Marseille, France
Monograph
After the Wall Traces of the Soviet Empire, Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2009Books, catalogues
12ème Nuit de la Photo, Musée international d’horlogerie, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, 2025Shifting Forms of Continental Colonialism : Unfinished Struggles and Tensions, Dittmar Schorkowitz, John R. Chávez, Ingo W. Schröder, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019
The Book of Images : A dictionary of visual experiences, Images Vevey-Koenig Books, 2019
Le livre d'images : dictionnaire illustré d'expériences visuelles, Images Vevey-Koenig Books, 2019
Les chemins d'Odessa, Cahiers slaves n°14, Université de Paris-Sorbonne, 2016
A Republic of Art, French Regional Collections of Contemporary Art, Van Abbemuseum, 2015
5x5 Quai N° 1 : espace pour l'image contemporaine, Biollay Raphaël & Stoll Stefano, Vevey, 2014
El comunista manifiesto : Un fantasma vuelve a recorrer el mundo, Iván de la Nuez, Galaxia Gutenberg, 2013
La chute de l’URSS : une fin d’Empire, Recherches & Travaux n°80, UGA éditions, 2012
FRAC Bretagne : la collection 1997-2011, LienArt éditions, 2012
70ème Biennale de la Société des amis du Musée des beaux-arts de La Chaux-de-Fonds, La Chaux-de-Fonds, 2012
Geografie del potere. Spazio ed eterotopie a partire da Michel Foucault, Materiali Foucaultiani, 2012
YP'11 Photographs by the Next Generation : Young Portfolio, K*MoPA, Kiyosato, 2011
XVIIe salon national des peintres de l'armée, Hôtel National des Invalides, Armée de Terre - EDIACAT, 2011
L'URSS, un paradis perdu ?, Cahiers slaves, n°11, Université de Paris-Sorbonne, 2010
4.Triennale der Photographie Hamburg 2008, Dölling und Galitz Verlag, 2008
Publications
Science, Physics World, Ciel&Espace, Le Monde, The Guardian, Financial Times, Business Insider, The Boston Globe, Le Temps, Lenta.ru, Port, Metro, The Calvert Journal, Forces TV, Images Magazine, Art World, PDN...Awards
Prix du jury, La Nuit de la Photo, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, 2025Best photo books, PDN Photo Annual, 2010
Best photo book, Prix de la Photographie de Paris PX3, 2010
The Year's Best Photography Book, PhotoEspana, shortlisted, 2010
Kaunas Photo Star, 2010