After two decades working as a photojournalist in Europe, Africa and the U.S., Luc Novovitch came to the Big Bend area of Texas in 1998. Seduced by the desert and mountains landscape, he decided to move to Marathon and concentrate anew on fine art photography. Born in Morocco and raised in Switzerland and France, Novovitch opened the Sotol Gallery on MarathonÕs main street, where from 1999 to 2004 he displayed his landscapes and other works, such as the Roping Series and the Dry Series, along with the photographs of other Chihuahuan Desert photographers.
In late 2004 Novovitch returned to documentary photography and illustration. Luc Novovitch photos are in private collections and have been exhibited at galleries in New York, Washington, and at the prestigious Fondation Internationale de la Photographie in France, where his pictures from a voyage to Japan were the subject of a one-man show.
About the portolio from American Deserts:
Deserts often evoke an immediate shock for the viewer, the reader, and I believe it is possible to create a further, deeper interest through presenting the unfamiliar and unusual images.
We assume that we know our deserts well. They play major roles in our popular films - Monument Valley is the perfect example - and the general public is familiar with American deserts as icons of the American West. But there are other unfamiliar images that can transmit the magic of these places, and it is these unusual landscapes that I search out, hoping to incite a new respect, discovery and appreciation for the diversity of our deserts
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My interest in this work is also to underline the fact, often little known, that four major deserts exist in the United States with a common link: they are 'high deserts' , so they include mountains and areas of high elevation, an idea which often goes against the preconceived notions of deserts.
