Charles freger

France-based photographer Charles Fréger visited 19 countries and more than 50 villages to capture these strangely dressed animals.

In the foreword to photographer’s Charles Freger’s Wildermann: The image of the savage, Irish novelist Robert Mcliam Wilson wonders why “we gave up religion for this?” This being “the depthless grand guignole of mass media idiocracy.” “Plugged in,” Wilson writes, “neurotically wi-fied and G3d as we

Max Campbell writes about the photographer Charles Fréger’s “YOKAINOSHIMA,” in which he catalogues the monsters, or Yokai, of Japanese folklore.

Max Campbell writes about the photographer Charles Fréger’s “YOKAINOSHIMA,” in which he catalogues the monsters, or Yokai, of Japanese folklore.

If you thought Santa’s naughty list was intimidating, chances are you never encountered a Krampus.

For two years in 2010 and 2011, Charles Fréger criss-crossed Europe from north to south, from Finland to Portugal, passing through Romania, Germany and Slovenia, in search of the figure of the savage as it survives in local popular traditions. These images, like archetypes, half-man half-beast, animal or vegetable, resurface from the depths of time

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