Nicolas DHERVILLERS

« My sentimental archives » attempts to create a link between past and present, reactivating archive images (the characters) through the filter of a contemporary approach, a prism of a landscape// constantly renewed urbanity. The old images are therefore coloured, cut out,...

Tourists fresh in from Miami Beach, Mexico, Moscow or Vladivostok find themselves totally alone and uprooted. This is an unmappable world where bearings are lost, that seems as unlikely as its new inhabitants. This series raises the question of taking yet more photos when...

Tourists fresh in from Miami Beach, Mexico, Moscow or Vladivostok find themselves totally alone and uprooted. This is an unmappable world where bearings are lost, that seems as unlikely as its new inhabitants. This series raises the question of taking yet more photos when...

Qui n’a jamais regardé un feuilleton à suspens, un bon vieux thriller à l’américaine, passera sans doute à côté de l’énigme de Nuit américaine, la dernière série de Nicolas Dhervillers. Plongé dans l’obscurité, dans un paysage semi-désertique, lampes torches...

Sunday poses : a lie-in, a family lunch, going for a stroll, meeting up with friends, a variety of things people do on a Sunday. A day of worship and rest for one and all, it is also a day that is constantly being redefined in our social and political codes. Turning his back on...

In this series I transposed visitors from the Pompidou Centre in Paris into spaces in the building site of the future Pompidou Centre in Metz. I set my photography studio up in an empty room in the museum in Paris and asked visitors to pretend to be the future public of the...

In Landscape Painting the photographs can be read on several levels. If at first they seem incredibly film-like, it is because the composition, intensity of light, contrast, saturation and density of the sky, create striking visual effects that are almost hynoptic. But the longer...

'Role' is in line with the rest of my work. I'm once again questioning the notions of portrayal, amateurism and entertainment. Unlike my other series, the simulation was spontaneous and at no moment did I have to intervene. It took a year for the script writers to write this...