Jean-Pierre Ruelle

Jean-Pierre Ruelle was born in 1965 in Bastogne. He graduated from Institut Saint Luc in Liège in 1986. He was in the class of Hubert Grooteclaes. He has been a professional photographer since 1988. He first worked in several laboratories and professional studios in Brussels, Kinshasa, Luxembourg.

In 1966 he settles in his native area and moves to advertising and communication. He collaborates with companies located in Belgium and the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg. His clients  ̶  spanning from natural heritage to institutions, architecture, industry, cooking photography  ̶  are as diversified as the subjects and products he is supposed to promote.

Along with that, he gets involved in more personal work, he develops portraits, street and landscape photography. Everything around him is  potential matter, and his sensitivity leads him very naturally towards social reportage. The exhibitions he proposes (« Visages roumains » in 1992, « VIP » in 2003, « No cow no life » in 2005, « Têtes à l’air » in 2007, « Ch… et autres moments silencieux » in 2010, « Trait contemporain » in 2015) progressively reveal the many aspects of the artist.

Jean-Pierre Ruelle likes people, and it is no doubt one of the happy « meanders of life » that makes him one day come across  the writer Alain Bertrand. Their meeting will lead them « En Ardenne » (published by Gilson). Where that entrance into the world of books has brought the photograph is now clear as he has since then worked with Marc Vandermeir. Together with the latter, he has explored the various races and uses of the draught horse in the book « Cheval de trait, trait contemporain » ( published by Weyrich).