Magnificent Man

Patrick de Wilde has exercised all the skills of his photo-journalist profession in putting together makeshift studios in capturing the essence of meaning in his subject matter and exploring the emotions at the heart of mankind. In his work we become the observer and the observed, to such an extent that it is difficult to say where one begins and the other ends. The hallmark of this book is the manifold variety of human life. Each society has different answers for the same questions of why we are here. Images are accompanied by quotations from philosophers and writers, and this title ultimately repositions every human being in the context of a great whole, through eliminating all decorative artifices so that the eye truly captures the other person.