You may know Richard holder as the photographer who’s famous
for shooting very artful and stylized photographs of nude women. Of course,
that’s not all he’s done and his pictorial pursuits run the gamut
from the Cross Country to “feech” playing on Belize City street
corners. Now he’s put together thirty photographs that show where’s
he’s at while also telling where he’s been...but still, with all
that, we couldn’t quite say where he’s coming from.
Richard Holder, Photographer
“Decadence is a collection of images from 1999 to 2009 that have been 
in exhibitions that have spanned those ten years. They are not commercial images,
they are not images done for fun, for the purpose of magazines or anything like
that. These images are specific images for exhibitions and these are 26 of what
I consider to be some of the strongest from those shows.
What I hope people will take away from this exhibition if they come and
see it is a sense of the power of photography in its ability to evoke a variety of different images and feelings within the audience. All of these images, with
the exception of the new image that promotes Decadence for 2009, all of the
show is pretty much black and white photographs which I think helps to emphasize
that point and helps to kind of jolts the person and helps him to appreciate
the photograph as a piece of art.
The direction I am going in now, actually I’ve already played with
the subject matter a lot; I’ve played with nudes, I’ve played with
reality of people on the streets, I’ve brought them into the studio, and
now I am trying to merge those two worlds. I think that photograph, the new
photograph, kind of basically sums up what I have done in ten years by bringing
the reality of the streets into the fantasy of the studio. I feel much more
ambitious about the future projects coming up. In a sense this ten years I can
reflect back with pride on these images. I feel proud of them, I really do,
and I can only imagine with the new ideas that I am already excited about and
have plans to create, what the next ten years could be like standing if we live
to have ten more years of Richard Holder around. Expect greater things, expect
fun, expect more decadent images.”
The show opened at 6:00 this evening at the Image Factory.
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