Ruby Forest - Photograph - Limited Edition of 4

Henri ODABAS is a French contemporary pictorialist photographer. The images captured using analog and digital cameras become real impressionist paintings. His artistic project is combining photography as an art with a painter vision. His photographic images are often layered and juxtaposed to give an impression of surreal, magic and sometimes contemplative scenes, where the unreal becomes ''real'' ! 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… film, expired film…