
Rodrigo
Rodrigo Gomez Rovira

biography

Born in 1968 in Santiago de Chile. Arrives in France in 1973, with his family fleeing the Pinochet regime. After studying psychology at Paris X, he devoted himself to photography as a self-taught photographer. His first work is about the neighbourhood where he grew up in the Parisian suburbs, in Colombes. City for which he worked for two years as a municipal photographer.
In 1996 he embarked on a Polish cargo ship for 45 days to reach Chile. He then took his first photographs of his native country, driven by the need to carry out a work of memory, after more than 20 years of exile in France. In 2000, Rodrigo Gomez Rovira became correspondent in Latin America for Agence VU’ and created Chile’s first photographers’ agency: IMA (Imagen Memoria Autor).
Known for his work on Latin America, Rodrigo frequently participates in exhibitions all over the world, organises workshops (mainly in France and Chile), and was curator of the exhibition presented at the Visa pour l’image Festival in 2003, retracing the work of 4 Chilean photographers during the dictatorship.
In 2004, he received a grant from the Chilean state to make a vast report on Valparaíso (where he settled the following year), and participated in the AMRIK project, bringing together twenty-three photographers from ten countries to work on the Arab presence in South America. The exhibition of photographs has been shown in the majority of South American countries, as well as in the United States, Spain, Algeria, Egypt and Lebanon. His latest work, commissioned by the state, deals with social isolation in Chile.
Since 2005, he has been based in Valparaíso, a city he continues to photograph. His photographic work focuses on Latin America. He is currently working on a state commission on social isolation in Chile until 2010.
After Répertoire (Raul Gomez, 2013), which brings together his father’s photographic archives, Rodrigo Gomez Rovira will publish his work with Xavier Barral Ultimo Sur in 2019.
Series


Ultimo Sur, 2020

Valparaiso, 2015

The Hard Workers of the Peruvian Guano (The Chincha Islands), 2014

Rapa Nui, Easter Island’s Mysteries, 2010

Pinochet Still Divides the Chile, 2006

The Esmeralda, 2009

Chile, 2006

Anvers / Valparaiso, 1996

Approval, 2020

Ultimo Sur, 2020

Valparaiso, 2015

The Hard Workers of the Peruvian Guano (The Chincha Islands), 2014

Rapa Nui, Easter Island’s Mysteries, 2010

Pinochet Still Divides the Chile, 2006

The Esmeralda, 2009

Chile, 2006

Anvers / Valparaiso, 1996

Approval, 2020

Ultimo Sur, 2020

Valparaiso, 2015

The Hard Workers of the Peruvian Guano (The Chincha Islands), 2014

Rapa Nui, Easter Island’s Mysteries, 2010

Pinochet Still Divides the Chile, 2006

The Esmeralda, 2009

Chile, 2006

Anvers / Valparaiso, 1996
Multimedia
Interviews
Chilean photographer Rodrigo Gomez Rovira
RFI
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Interview by Muriel Maalouf, 2020
The Chilean photographer Rodrigo Gomez Rovira has just published “Utimo Sur”, a picture book about Chile, a country that blurs the boundaries between past and present. The culmination of an art as much as a work of memory.
Exhibitions
« ANVERS 1996 VALPARAISO »
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Enclos du phare, Treffiagat – Festival photo du Guilvinec
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From June 1 to September 30, 2023
« 1973 CHILE 2023 »
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Image Singulières – Le Cyclo, Sète
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From May 18 to June 11, 2023
books

Registre des voyageurs - Couserans

Ultimo Sur

Valparaiso : Cuaderno Fotographico

Registre des voyageurs - Couserans

Ultimo Sur

Valparaiso : Cuaderno Fotographico

Registre des voyageurs - Couserans

Ultimo Sur
