Girl with the pearl earring - Painting

Henri ODABAS is an Award winning French contemporary pictorialist photographer. The images captured using analog and digital cameras become real impressionist paintings. His approach consists of taking photographs and editing them with a marked "pictorial" aspect, thus creating images that oscillate between photography and painting, capturing the beauty and sublimating the magnetism of the Light, making it almost tangible. Henri is an insatiable “experimenter”, passionate, ready for all plastic experiments to achieve a final result where the emphasis is placed on feelings and inner life. He is perhaps the ''inventor'' of ICM photography technic , since in 1971, when he was very young, he took his famous photograph entitled ''Blue Moon'' which is exhibited on his SaatchiArt gallery. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Henri is winner of World Photography Day Contest in 2023 with his photograph ''Wata-Yuki'' . ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ BIOGRAPHY : He spent his adolescence in Switzerland, a so beautiful and inspiring country. At the age of 12 that he received his first camera (ZEISS-IKON) and one of his neighbors, a professional photographer, taught him the manual basics setting of a camera. From an early age he showed particular aptitude for drawing and painting. Often, in elementary school and high school, his paintings were hung on the panels by his teachers.... In 1996, he trained with Patrick BETAUDIER (1928-2008) at Neo Medici painting workshop in Monflanquin (FR) where he discovered a special technique of painting : creating a radiating light which magnetizes the sight. Photographic technics used : long exposure, multi exposure, ICM, infrared, organic filters, … film, expired film…