Right Time RIght Place - Robert Rutöd





Robert Rutöd: Right Time Right Place

"Man is unhappy because he doesn’t know he’s happy." (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)

Being at the right place at the right time is usually associated with happiness and success. But what happens when we are at the right place at the wrong time? Do we even know that this is the right place? And what if it turns out that it is the wrong place after all? But the right time!

Whoever loses his orientation over this thought will get a feeling for Robert Rutöd’s latest pictures. The Vienna-born photographer wandered for five years through Europe and has proven to be a keen observer with an often tragicomic view.




"What Robert Rutöd brings to the contemporary photographic dialogue is that intangible ability to see the world with a skewed lens - a lens that is compassionate and at the same time, unkind. It is a lens that is the stuff of operas and nightmares, comedies and slapstick.

Robert finds that split second of humor or truth telling and that instant of social documentation or absurdity that makes us not only laugh at ourselves, but also laugh and feel embarrassed all at the same time. Or should I say, at The Right Time.“ (Aline Smithson, from the foreword to the book „Right Time Right Place“)

„Right Time Right Place” was recently awarded the Special Prize of the Czech Center of Photography. A photo from the series won the New York Photo Award 2012 in the category Fine Art.








Robert Rutöd, born in Vienna, lives in Austria. Photographer and filmmaker. Made numerous short feature films with screenings worldwide. Photographic work exhibited throughout Europe, the United States and Asia. 

Books: Less Is More (2009), 
grayscales. early b&w photographs (2010), 
Right Time Right Place (2012). 
Website: www.rutoed.com
Selected exhibitions:
Right Time Right Place (WUK Projektraum, Vienna, Austria) S 2012
Right Time Right Place (Galeria Fotografii, Bielsko-Biała, Poland) S 2012
About Photography (M. Žilinskas Art Gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania) G 2012
An Eye for an Ear (Galerie Huit, Arles, France) G 2012
The Fence (Photoville Photography Festival, New York, USA) G 2012
Simply (Center for Fine Art Photography, Colorado, USA) G 2012
klpa12 (Warehouse Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) G 2012
Kolga Tbilisi Photo (Tbilisi, Georgia) G 2012
Photo Annual Awards (Wall Gallery, Teplice, Czech Republic) G 2012






Photos @ Robert Rutöd

Comments

Anonymous said…
Wonderful! the timing is 100% :)

/mats ä
Phil Decker said…
Thanks for capturing moments that not everyone sees :)