Black Gallery

José Risso

Bio

José Risso (Uruguay 1970) is attracted by the rustic Uruguayan rural landscape. He works with analog photography in a classic formalism, both in practice and in the aesthetic look. Interested in laboratory processes, he usually performs the copying of his black and white photographs in his own laboratory. With a vocation for solitary landscapes, he portrays places detained in time, preserving and rescuing memory, with a contemporary reading of painting masters such as Pedro Figari or Nicolás García Uriburu.
His work has been exhibited among others, at the Cultural Center of Spain in Montevideo, Zorrilla Museum, Atchugarry Manantiales Foundation, FOLA Buenos Aries, Lima, Angola, Sweden and Vienna.

Statement

Mi medio de expresión es la fotografía. Habitualmente realizo el copiado manual de mis fotografías, ya que solo produzco las tomas con película y cámaras de formato medio.
Mis temas recurrentes son las abstracciones, los lugares abandonados, la transformación del paisaje por la mano del hombre y la ausencia del elemento humano. Manuel Álvarez Bravo y Graciela Iturbide son mis referentes.
La toma directa, el revelado y la copia, es el proceso que me acompaña desde hace más de 20 años.

José Risso
Title: Troncos como fusiles, Departamento de Tacuarembó, Uruguay
Serie: Devastación
Medium: Gelatina de plata tonificada al selenio. Papel fotográfico, , copiado y revelado manual realizado por el autor.
Date of print: 2022
Capture year: 2015
Dimensions: 36 x 36 cm
Edition: 2/10
Wall reference
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in

Other works of Black Gallery

Other galleries

ArtexArte
ZONA V Fine art point
Imaginario
Subsuelo
GALLERyLABS
Del Infinito
Troncos como fusiles, Departamento de Tacuarembó, Uruguay

eZ debug

Timing: Feb 09 2026 09:07:41
Script start
Timing: Feb 09 2026 09:07:41
Module start 'content'
Timing: Feb 09 2026 09:07:41
Module end 'content'
Timing: Feb 09 2026 09:07:41
Script end

Main resources:

Total runtime0.2454 sec
Peak memory usage8,192.0000 KB
Database Queries125

Timing points:

CheckpointStart (sec)Duration (sec)Memory at start (KB)Memory used (KB)
Script start 0.00000.0111 925.3047611.2188
Module start 'content' 0.01110.2196 1,536.52345,345.5234
Module end 'content' 0.23070.0146 6,882.0469218.4141
Script end 0.2453  7,100.4609 

Time accumulators:

 Accumulator Duration (sec) Duration (%) Count Average (sec)
Ini load
Load cache0.00261.0545180.0001
Mysql Total
Database connection0.00120.492210.0012
Mysqli_queries0.081233.08231250.0006
Looping result0.00311.27691220.0000
TS translator
TS init0.00120.497930.0004
TS cache load0.00090.361930.0003
TS context load0.00080.313730.0003
Template Total0.205083.520.1025
Template load0.00220.882420.0011
Template processing0.202882.636420.1014
Template load and register function0.00010.048510.0001
states
state_id_array0.00100.402910.0010
state_identifier_array0.00110.431920.0005
Override
Cache load0.00120.4950350.0000
Sytem overhead
Fetch class attribute can translate value0.00210.8531200.0001
Fetch class attribute name0.00140.5693270.0001
Fetch class attribute name0.00451.822580.0006
XML
Image XML parsing0.055622.6630200.0028
class_abstraction
Instantiating content class attribute0.00010.0463280.0000
General
dbfile0.054222.07691080.0005
String conversion0.00000.005330.0000
Note: percentages do not add up to 100% because some accumulators overlap

Time used to render debug report: 0.0004 secs