500 Photographers: Photographer #185: Nicolas Dhervillers

Friday, December 17, 2010

Photographer #185: Nicolas Dhervillers

Nicolas Dhervillers, 1981, France, is a photographer that keeps fooling it's viewers. What appears as reality is actually a fabricated reality. In his series Tourist he has taken night pictures of remote places in which he relights certain parts creating "non-places". He then went on the internet searching for the most banal holiday snap possible. He combines the two images letting the people be tourists in his images. In the series Préfiguration, Nicolas photographed visitors in the Pompidou Centre in Paris and put them into spaces of the building site of the future Pompidou Centre in Metz. The following images come from the series Tourist #2, Préfiguration and Landscape Painting.

Website: www.nicolasdhervillers.com
Video in French

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Amanda Horner said...: Love this ❤️; January 15, 2018 at 3:06 PM

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