François Besch


François Besch is a Luxembourgish photographer and artist.

Life and work

Besch was born on 11 April 1963 in Esch-sur-Alzette. The autodidact has been living and working in Bivange since 2006.
In Besch's nature and landscape shots, his primary interest is in conveying feelings or moods. Besch has also made portrait, street and experimental photography since the 1980s. He uses classic cameras and also a smartphone. In 2011, Besch hosted an exhibition in Luxembourg in which the photographs were created using the Hipstamatic application for the iPhone.
In 2013 POST Luxembourg acquired five of his works – portraits of wild mushrooms – which were used on a series of postage stamps. They were the first official postage stamps in the world to use photographs which were not taken with conventional cameras.
Besch also makes portraits of personalities using a smartphone, among them other photographers John G. Morris, Lucien Clergue and David Hamilton.

Award

In March 2017 Besch received the Monika von Boch-Preis für Fotografie

Exhibitions