Nicolas Henri Photographer Review

Credit: http://www.nicolashenri.ch/#/Portfolio/

Nicolas Henri is a Swiss photographer who originally attended film school in Toronto, Canada. After working as a picture editor for a TV station in Switzerland, Henri combines his experience there with his career as a professional photographer to create a different photo style. His portfolio, as presented on his website, demonstrate clearly his passion for mostly (with exceptions) photographing people and an undeniable resemeblence to fashion journalism.

His portfolio, “The Book of Grace” is the most reserved of his collections. His other photos use colors and images to strike a certain emotional reaction using black and white photography, frightening and jarring situations or people, and different types of lighting and lenses to set up a shot. However, in “The Book of Grace” Henri tends to juxtapose his well dressed models in industrial or unusual settings. Often his pictures contain an intense expression or situation that gives off an aggressive vibe using bold colors such as red, mustard yellow or white. Also, the pictures in this collection clearly show his work experience in television. Shards of glass, water bubbles, snow or moving hair adds motion and animation interest to his photos. Henri experiments with placing his subjects in the center, the right and the left of the picture. He also makes use of depth of field by focusing on the model and blurring the background. He has no pattern of lighting in this portfolio; Henri uses both natural light and backlighting. I really like Henri’s photos and how he incorporates different angles and perspective throughout his portfolio. Henri photographs both black and white and color photos exceptionally well; proving his capablilities as an equally talented photographer in making use of color or lack there of. I think his strongest capabilities lie in his ability to take a undeniable emotionally charged picture that is interesting and unique to the viewer.