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Franck Bohbot (born November 12, 1980) Franck Bohbot is an artist photographer, and director celebrated for his unique style, characterized by images of spaces, streets, and portraits. He began his career in 2008 and is among the rare few who excel at capturing the essence of both places and people.
Bohbot captures life’s scenes with a natural and fresh approach, transforming the ordinary into the extraordinary through his recognizable mastery of color, impeccable lighting, and refined composition. Each image evokes a grand cinematic atmosphere, rich in colors—sometimes soft and pale, sometimes warm and vibrant.
His works have been featured in The New York Times, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Harper’s Bazaar, AD Magazine, El País, Time, The Guardian, and more. Interiors are his mastered and beloved domain, alongside street scenes, to which he has gradually introduced portraits, adding more life to his compositions. This evolution has led him to collaborate with prestigious brands and partners in fashion, advertising, and design, including Paul Smith, Nike, Knoll, Iris Van Herpen, LG, Le Louvre, Leica, Miu Miu, and Valentino. His work is collected by public and private collections around the world.
He has published two books, Light On New York City and Back to the Arcade.
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, was premiered and published in The New York Times,
In 2014, his series, Chinatown, was published in Wired,
In 2015, Bohbot collaborated with British fashion designer Paul Smith.
In June 2015, Bohbot was commissioned by The New York Times Magazine, to photograph the DreamHack in Jönköping, Sweden. His featured images included large-scale color photographs, monumental views, and portraits of 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,.
November 2019, his work LA Confidential, is published in The Guardian, and said: “At night, everything changes,and the neon lights help to create the scene… this could be the LA from the past but also from the future.”
In February 2021, Designboom, published his work on Richard Neutra.
In June 2021, his documentary project The Last Show, that showcased Southern California Theatres during the lockdown is published in El País,.
In January 2022, his timeless portraits of L.A's Arcades were published in The New York Times,.. He quotes: "My fascination is partly a result of seeing these places portrayed in popular films, from “Jaws” and “Terminator 2” to “Back to the Future Part II” and “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.” But arcades also remind me of my own childhood experiences — particularly during my teenage years, when, alone or with my friends, I’d hunt down a Street Fighter or Pac-Man arcade, or lose myself on a home console: Atari, Nintendo, Sega."
Franck Bohbot lives and works in Los Angeles with his wife Katia and their two daughters Clara and Chloé .
References
Books
= Publications
=Back to the Arcade (Setanta, 2023). ISBN 978-1-915652-04-1.
Light on New York City (teNeues, 2016). ISBN 978-3-8327-3443-5.
External links
Official Website
Facebook page
