Hans Silvester

Hans Silvester (born the October 2nd 1938 with Lörrach in Germany) is a professional photograph and militant ecologist.

His/her parents offer its first camera to him for its fourteenth birthday. Photography impassions it already but in fact the voyages will give him the taste of the report. After having obtained a diploma at the school of Freiburg in 1955, he travels through the Europe and stops in the Camargue. Of this last place, it publishes in 1960 a report captioned by texts of Jean Giono which gets an immediate success to him.

In 1962, it settles in continuous Provence but to traverse the world: South America (for a report in humane matter ), the United States (where there remain six months), Central America, Japan, Portugal, Egypt, Tunisia, Hungary, Peru, Italy, Spain. It joined the agency Rapho in 1965 and inaugurates in 1977 the first number of the magazine Géo with a chronicle of a village of the Pays Basque.

At the same time animalist photographer (on varied sets of themes the such Pigeon S, the horses of the Camargue, the Bird X, Cat S and Dog S of the Greek islands, etc), he is also the photographer of a singular tradition (the Pétanque, the scarecrow S, the kites, etc).

From the years 1980, Hans Silvester directs her work towards the environmental militancy. It photographs all then the natural parks of Europe, denounces the devastations of the deforestation in Amazonia, publishes a long report on the river Calavon under the title “the assassinated river”, is interested in the exploitation of the Forêt in North America. Hans Silvester is a photographer still in activity with whom one recently owes a photographic testimony on the life of the women of the desert and another on the people of the valley of Omo.

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