The Grand Lake Theatre, Oakland California - Limited Edition of 5 Photograph

Fine Art Photographer, born in France, lives and work between New York and Los Angeles. Born in 1980 in France, photographer Franck Bohbot moved to New York City in 2013, and is currently based out of Los Angeles. He is a documentarian with an eye for the theatrical who found his way to photography by way of cinema. Although he turned his focus fully to photography in 2008, beginning his career as a unit still photographer on short film sets, the formal and aesthetic influences of the cinematographic form unsurprisingly continue to underlie his present work. Bohbot’s photographic work inhabits a space between reality and fantasy, documenting and storytelling, every frame—to borrow a phrase from Nan Goldin—like a still from a nonexistent film. He has drawn artistic inspiration from figures as diverse as Jeff Wall, Luigi Ghirri, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Edward Hopper, William Eggleston, and Martin Scorsese. Bohbot frequently takes a formal, typological approach to crafting visual narratives, highlighting the surreal symmetries of our constructed worlds and capturing the poetry of everyday places with a unique attentiveness to the interplay of light and color. He employs the latter two elements as tools of nostalgia, exploring loss and obsolescence by crafting images that are as much about what is invisible or lacking as what is there within the frame. Rendering public spaces, street scenes, and architectural sites of interest in his distinctive painterly palette, he documents inanimate structures with all the sensitivity of a human portrait, as though constructing an imaginary archive of social spaces for a post-apocalyptic time capsule. His works have been critically acclaimed and published by The New York Times, National Geographic, New York Mag, El Pais, Vogue, Time, Bloomberg, The Guardian, L'Obs, Vanity Fair, Architectural Digest among others.