Nicolas henri photographer biography

Nicolas Henry (born 1978).
Nicolas Henry Born in 1978 in Paris, France Lives and works in Paris In parallel to a career in scenography and lighting design for theatre, Nicolas Henry.
A graduate of the Beaux Arts de Paris, Nicolas Henry is a French artist-photographer, director, and visual artist.

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Nicolas Henry

Nicolas Henry, born in 1978 in Paris, graduated from "Les Beaux-Arts de Paris". From plastic artist to producer and movie director for "6 milliards d’autres" a film by Yann Arthus Bertrand, Nicolas has developed over the years a very personal and distinctive style that combines photography, sculpture, and performance art to create immersive environments.

Nicolas' work often explores themes of memory, nostalgia, and the passage of time. He frequently incorporates original objects and vintage clothing into his installations, using them to create elaborate and intricate sets that transport the viewer in other dimensions. His subjects, often models or performers, are carefully posed and styled to fit within these environments, creating a sense of unity and cohesion between the subjects and their surroundings.

Whether he is exploring the faded glamour of Paris in the 1920s or the haunting beauty of abandoned buildings, Henry's photographic work is a testament to the power of imagination and the art of storytelling.

Throughout his care

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Nicolas Henry

Born in 1978 in Paris, France

Lives and works in Paris

In parallel to a career in scenography and lighting design for theatre, Nicolas Henry travelled the world as film director for the project “6 Billion Others”, by Yann Arthus-Bertrand. He took on the role of artistic director for the exhibition at the Grand Palais in Paris.

Curious about others, the artist defines himself as a storyteller, adopting the maxim of Théodore Monod: “I am the bonds that I establish”.

For him, photography is a pretext to create aesthetic work that strikes powerful emotion. It is also, and essentially, a pretext to tell stories.

So, in 2010, he undertook a series of portraits of the world’s ancestors, which he gathered into a book, Les cabanes de nos grands-parents, published by Editions Actes Sud in 2011. From the Andes to Japan, by way of Jordan, Russia, or Papua New Guinea, Nicolas Henry takes us to the far corners of the globe, inside vast cities or remote locations, to meet

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Nicolas Henry

Born in France, 1978 , Nicolas Henry is a graduate from Les Beaux Arts de Paris. He was trained in cinema industry as fiction director at the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver, Canada.
After following a lighting designer and set designer career in the show ( Music, Contemporany Danse and Theater), he traveled the world for three years as film director for the project " 6 Billion Others " by Yann Arthus- Bertrand, then he was his artistic director, during the exhibition at the Grand Palais in early 2009. Then for 6 years, he pursued his personal work travelling the world and realizing a series to meet the ancestors of the whole world "Our grandparent’s playhouses" (Editions Actes Sud), mixing installation works and photographic portraits. These combinations of photographs and sculptures have been exhibited around the world from New York to Japan, Nepal, Nigeria, Korea to Argentina… The Fiction Movie "Comfortably Lost» (2011) by Quentin Clausin is based on the story of this living theater.
In 2016, he has been awarded as Popcap 16 winner for a