Photo Contemporary Hollywood — Nicolas Claris & Romain Claris

Presentation

PHOTO CONTEMPORARY

In May 2015, OPF Gallery One invited Nicolas Claris and Romain Claris to present part of their work at Photo Contemporary in Hollywood.

Nicolas Claris exhibited two photographic series: BANGLADESH!, a long-term documentary project in the heart of Bangladesh, and the Monday night series.

Romain Claris presented two films connected to these series.

Artists represented: Michael A Smith, Chris Calohan, Paula Chamlee, Nicolas Claris, Romain Claris, Antonio Correia, Nicolas Genette, Asher Kelman, Jerome Marot, Charlotte Thompson, Cem Usakligil.

Photo Contemporary is an annual event bringing together photographers from around the world at the Raleigh Studios in Hollywood, Los Angeles.

OPF Gallery One — One Photo Fine Art Gallery — is a fine art photography gallery based in Los Angeles.

The authors

Nicolas Claris

Co-founder in 1993 of Claris Image Builder — Photographer

"It takes a lot of maritime knowledge to give each boat its most beautiful aspects. It takes a lot of technical knowledge to master the recent art of digital. It takes a lot of humility to serve your subjects, not use them. It takes a lot of energy to take on new challenges every year. It takes a lot of academicism to know how to break codes. It takes a lot of respect to avoid the easy way out. It takes a lot of love to make generous images. It takes a lot of open-mindedness to be a great artist." — Bruno Belmont, Product Development, Groupe Bénéteau

In 2008, Sinar entrusted him with an HY6 for a year of intensive testing under extraordinary conditions. Now addicted to medium format (large sensors), Nicolas Claris became one of Pentax's rare ambassadors from 2012 to 2021.

In 2022, he switched to even more technologically advanced Fujifilm equipment — still medium format, with a 102-megapixel sensor delivering exceptional colour and image quality.

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Romain Claris

Claris Image Builder — Video Director

"If a wide angle shot is what we can all do, detail is what is lacking for our image-drowned eye with which we look at the world. Then, only then — the fold of fabric in a sewing machine, the stroke of a brush on a white page, drops of rain on a train window, the hand of a sculptor, a pebble becoming a jewel, the flexible foot of a dancer… all these things filmed by Romain Claris move us because they allow us to see a wider, richer, more complex world than we thought." — Jacques Dubuisson, Screenwriter, Director

Romain Claris has been creating short films since 2000, selected and awarded at over a hundred international film festivals. Graduate of the Conservatoire Libre du Cinéma Français in Paris, 2005.

In 2020, he co-founded the Bordeaux Shorts Biennale. In preparation for 2026: the documentary Les comptes de la lune, an alternative history of the invention of numbers and calculation.

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