Axel Ruhomaully

Axel Ruhomaully is a multi-faceted Belgian-Mauritian artist based in Mauritius. He began his career as an explorer in 1996 as a flight crew member on long-haul flights for an airline, and after attending a photography school in Paris from which he graduated in 2000, he traded his uniform for a camera, his new passport to quench his thirst for discovery.

Over time, his art photographs take us on journeys that remind us of the great moments of History through unique shots taken in exceptional locations.

The artist sculpts these legendary objects with his "Light Stencils", his signature lighting technique in "chiaroscuro" mode dear to Rembrandt, with the aim of awakening colors and revealing the material, like his recent images taken at the Air and Space Museum of Le Bourget (France), the Leonardo Da Vinci Museum (Italy) or the "Vostok 5" space capsule (photographed at the "Tsiolkovsky" Cosmos Museum in Russia) aboard which cosmonaut Valery Bykovsky traveled into space in 1963. All images that, printed on Canson Infinity art paper for which the artist is World Ambassador, invite us on a true journey through space and time.

All his images are all the more special as the artist obtains, for each shot, the exceptional authorizations that allow him to access these treasures often kept in the reserves of these mythical institutions or in private collections.