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Franck Bohbot (born November 12, 1980) is a New York-based photographer known for his portraits and color photographs of public spaces and urban scenes.
Biography
Bohbot was born in a suburb of Paris in 1980 and moved to New York City in 2013.
Style
National Geographic described Bohbot as "a master of interior and exterior spaces".
Wired wrote on Franck Bohbot's Chinatown Series "The series draws directly from the visual vocabulary and tonal palette of cinema. Many of the pictures bring to mind the unmistakable look of Blade Runner. The heavy atmosphere in these photos seems loaded with a sense of drama, like a portal into some modern noir film".
ArchDaily wrote "Bohbot embraces quasiperfect symmetry, creating a surreal quality and invoking a sense of curiosity with each image".
Works
Bohbot's work has appeared in The New York Times, New York Magazine, Wired, National Geographic, The New York Times Magazine, ‘'Vogue Magazine,and L'Obs. Bohbot was commissioned by the Louvre Museum to make photographs of their gallery interiors in 2013.
In 2014, his first series of Portraits, Cuts, were premiered and published in The New York Times,
In 2014, his series, Chinatown, were published in Wired,
In 2015, Bohbot collaborated with British fashion designer Paul Smith.
From 2015 to 2017 he worked with the main International agencyINSTITUTE for Artist Management, run by Frank Evers which manage 23 artists including Lauren Greenfield and Simon Norfolk.
In June 2015, Bohbotwas commissioned by The New York Times Magazine, to photograph the DreamHack in Jönköping, Sweden. His featured images included large scale color photograph, monumental views and portraits of the gamers.
In 2016, Bohbot released his monograph entitled Light On New York City, published by teNeues,
June 2018, his Portrait Series and book project in collaboration with writer Philippe Ungar, We Are New York Indie Booksellers, is premiered and published in The Guardian,
May 2019, his Series Forever Young, is published in The Guardian,
Franck Bohbot is currently based in Los Angeles.
Books
Publications by Franck Bohbot
- Light On New York City, teNeues, 2016. ISBN 978-3-8327-3443-5.
