偶然看到这位摄影师拍摄的几张风光作品，感觉对味，就仔细了解了些关于这个摄影师的信息。
Harry Gruyaert 是一位出生于 1941 年的比利时摄影师，最初梦想成为电影导演，后来转向摄影。他在 1959 年至 1962 年间在布鲁塞尔电影和摄影学校学习，并在 21 岁时离开比利时，逃离他所生长的严格天主教环境。Gruyaert 在欧洲、北非、亚洲和美国旅行，并在拥有强大电影和摄影场景的城市如巴黎和伦敦生活。他在 1968 年首次访问纽约时，了解到流行艺术家如 Roy Lichtenstein 和 Robert Rauschenberg 的作品，这使他认识到颜色的创造潜力，并鼓励他在其职业生涯的其余部分中寻找美在日常元素中。Gruyaert 的摄影风格受到电影背景的影响，他更关注图像的美感，而不是通过镜头记录故事或文档世界。他的作品包括一系列关于沿海景观的照片，这些照片反映了他对这些地方快速变化的光线的热爱。他还拍摄了一系列关于电视屏幕的彩色照片，这些照片现在是帕拉帕拉美术馆的收藏。Gruyaert 在 1982 年加入 Magnum Photos。
Originally dreaming of becoming a film director, Harry Gruyaert studied at the School of Film and Photography in Brussels from 1959 to 1962. Shortly after he left Belgium at the age of 21, fleeing the strict catholic environment in which he was raised. Gruyaert travelled extensively across Europe, North Africa, Asia and the United States and lived in cities with a vibrant film and photography scene like Paris and London. During his first trip to New York in 1968, he discovered Pop artists like Roy Lichtenstein and Robert Rauschenberg. This encounter made him appreciate the creative potential of colour and encouraged him to search for beauty in everyday elements for the rest of his career. Around the same time Gruyaert befriended the American artists Richard Nonas and Gordon Matta-Clark and photographed their work. Further inspired by the visual impulses on his first trip to Morocco in 1969, he decided in the second half of the 1970s as one of the first photographers in Europe to commit himself entirely to colour photography.
Gruyaert's cinematographic background instilled in him an aesthetic conception of photography. Rather than telling stories or documenting the world through his lens, he searches for beauty in everyday elements. His images are simply snapshots of magical moments in which different visual elements, primarily colour, form, light and movement, spontaneously come together in front of his lens.
In his search for strong graphical images, Gruyaert focuses his camera on objects as much as on people, who are often reduced to silhouettes or rendered to plain colour fields. Unsurprisingly the countries he photographs are mostly identified by means of the subtle differences in colour palette and light, inherent to the local atmosphere, culture and climate, more than by the depicted subjects or scenes.
Among his most well-known series are 'Rivages/Edges', featuring coastal views from around the world, that Gruyaert photographed out of a fascination for the rapidly changing light in these places. In the early 1970s, while he was living in London, Gruyaert worked on a series of colour television screen shots later to become the 'TV Shots' and now part of the Centre Pompidou collection. Around that time he regularly returned to his home country Belgium. This resulted in the series 'Roots', that perfectly reflects the Belgian Zeitgeist of the 1970s and 1980s.
In 1982 Gruyaert joined Magnum Photos.
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