Director of Photography for 15 years on short and feature films as well as for commercials and clips, David Nissen today reveals more personal work through his photo series, during his two exhibitions, on the sidelines of the Month of the Photo in Paris.

  • © David Nissen - Salon du Panthéon Serie 1 photo N ° 3 Format 80x120

He has worked with directors like Laurent Tirard, Jacques Audiard, Christophe Gans, Eric Lartigau, Rémi Belvaux, Eric Tolédano, Olivier Nakache, ... and exercised his talent for clips for Pascal Obispo, Johnny Hallyday, Raphaël, Florent Pagny, Marc Lavoine ,… As well as for advertising spots for Hugo Boss, SFR, Vuitton, Bulgari, Renault, Coca-Cola, L'Oréal,…

His shoots in France and abroad (Asia, United States, ...) are always as many opportunities to exercise his photographer's eye, to take series of personal, intimate photos during solitary wanderings to meet places who each have their own story to tell or invent. The rare human beings who appear there take on the appearance of movie characters whose enigmatic thoughts we would like to know.

“Being contemplative is essential when you're a photographer, walking, driving, while listening to music, are for me ways to let inspiration come.

I'm looking for places that exude a certain power, singular light atmospheres, atmospheres that have a story to reveal. My goal is to allow the spectator to enter the image to establish his own staging, as a director does by seeking sets to give substance to his scenario.

A cinematographic gaze guides my photographic escapades, I am driven by the desire to take the viewer into a fiction where he himself becomes an actor, where he is not passive, it is an exchange of glances.

My photographic wanderings are deliberately pictorial and emotional because by photographing either through the impurities of a window, of a window or through water, I seek a materiality, a thickness that we meet only in painting.

Photo director and photographer are my two jobs: two passions that merge and feed on each other. "  David Nissen tells us

For this second solo exhibition, he has a nice setting: the Salon du Panthéon, located above the Panthéon cinema, close to the Sorbonne.

In this cozy place, decorated with taste and finesse by Catherine Deneuve and Christian Sapet, an air of "at home" emerges which does not make you want to leave it. And you can have lunch, have tea there.

The actress attaches great importance to the programming of exhibitions and takes part in the selection of works.

David Nissen exhibits 15 photos there that blend perfectly with the place.

In search of strong, interesting light and atmospheres that can tell a story, the photographer takes the visitor into his world.

Practical information :

Hall of the Pantheon
Pantheon cinema 13 rue Victor Cousin
75005 Paris

Free entry. Monday to Friday, 12 p.m. to 19 p.m.

www.whynotproductions.fr/pantheon

www.davidnissen.fr