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Un peu de rouge, pourtant.

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Thank you Asher for the kind words :)

The poster has been printed on a self adhesive canvas with anti UV and waterproof inks
The exterior walls of the hotel are completely covered with Corian® material.
Very smart, Nicolas!

Of course!

What is the canvas make and code and how long could it last in bright sun? Which print inks?

I would love to make your letters for the hotel in stainless steel! I would bring it in my suitcase for you, LOL! Your vision is wonderful for the hotel as well as the exhibition!

Asher
 

Andy brown

Well-known member
Nicolas, I’m sure the exhibition will be a great success, I’m very impressed with these works. Some of your best which is saying a lot!
 

nicolas claris

OPF Co-founder/Administrator
Nicolas, I’m sure the exhibition will be a great success, I’m very impressed with these works. Some of your best which is saying a lot!
Thank you Andy!
Opening soirée is next Thursday and we have already 150 person who registered… as we know that most of people do register during the las preceeding 2 days, I do think that we'll break our record (200 +)
We'll have Japanese tea,, Saké and Bordeaux red wine… Sushis as if they were raining…
I hope people will have time to look at the photos!

Wishing to exhibit in Australia one day!
 

Andy brown

Well-known member
Thank you Andy!
Opening soirée is next Thursday and we have already 150 person who registered… as we know that most of people do register during the las preceeding 2 days, I do think that we'll break our record (200 +)
We'll have Japanese tea,, Saké and Bordeaux red wine… Sushis as if they were raining…
I hope people will have time to look at the photos!

Wishing to exhibit in Australia one day!
Good luck with it all. I do love sushi!
You must photograph in Australia one day.
 

nicolas claris

OPF Co-founder/Administrator
Hanging day!

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Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
How long is the exhibition?

Would they like a sign in steel in that design when the exhibition closes. It’s so classy and fabulous with the Japanese font.

Is that a named special font or did you invent it from scratch?

Asher
 

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Hanging day!


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Nicolas,

Eyes closed and open in structures reminiscent of Japanese country homes with wooden slats as window shades.

No curves here of disciplined bonzaii, as the architecture is all rectilinear, but your design reminds of imagined tranquil cabins near Mount Fuji!

What a great presentation. You are getting even amazingly better.

But we need to hear the detailed story of the artistic development of the special character of your woman with the most red lips!

Asher
 

nicolas claris

OPF Co-founder/Administrator
How long is the exhibition?

Would they like a sign in steel in that design when the exhibition closes. It’s so classy and fabulous with the Japanese font.

Is that a named special font or did you invent it from scratch?

Asher
The exhibition lasts till January 6, 2020.
When the exhibition will close, they will prepare for a new one… (not by us though ; )
Kanji! How could i invent a Japanese font? !
I just got the right sentence from a Japanese haïku specialist (who understands French)
 

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
The exhibition lasts till January 6, 2020.
When the exhibition will close, they will prepare for a new one… (not by us though ; )
Kanji! How could i invent a Japanese font? !
I just got the right sentence from a Japanese haïku specialist (who understands French)
If you can build a boat, Captain it across the oceans, find a wife called Marine and have a son for stories called Romain, you can do anything!

Asher
 

nicolas claris

OPF Co-founder/Administrator
On Thursday October 17, was the opening party.

180 guests (counted!) attended in the cultural space of the Seeko'o **** in the presence of Mr. Bruno Lacoste Honorary Consul of Japan in Bordeaux ...
All were able to enjoy a tea offered by La Maison Jugetsudo, a Sake offered by La Maison du Japon, as well as sushis and makis served by SU and SHI with the red or white wines of Dourthe ...

Une soirée ... Très japonophile!

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Mr. Bruno Lacoste Honorary Consul of Japan in Bordeaux

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The dedicated room for the film

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OPF Co-founder/Administrator
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From left to right: Romain Claris, Sèverine Perrier (Seeko'o Manager), Salomé Costagliola (the model) and myself
 

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
What a joy! Such a great group work. How long does the exhibition stay?

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The hotel manager seems “Pleased as Punch”!

Romain, (so proud as a Peacock), and you, (such a charming French gentleman with an Estate),

.....are like boys with a brand new train set spread out over three rooms!

..... and the model the “Youth of the Republique”!

Asher
 

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Nicolas,

This was a very well attended event. Did the Hotel provide the mailing list, or you have built it up over the years?

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You arranged and organized it so well. Large impressive and beautiful prints, lots of space, wonderful ambience, folk very interested in the work!

Certainly you both have made your mark. I hope the sales go well!

Asher
 

nicolas claris

OPF Co-founder/Administrator
Thank you Asher for commenting!

What a joy! Such a great group work. How long does the exhibition stay?

The exhibition lasts till January 6, 2020.

The hotel manager seems “Pleased as Punch”!
She was quite happy with the success :)

Romain, (so proud as a Peacock), and you, (such a charming French gentleman with an Estate),
It is absolutely not Romain's normal behavior… He was just playing with the photog…

..... and the model the “Youth of the Republique”!
Asher
She has been our muse for a few hours, she has never been modelling before but understood immediately our wills and needs, she even added her own sensitivity…
 
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nicolas claris

OPF Co-founder/Administrator
This was a very well attended event. Did the Hotel provide the mailing list, or you have built it up over the years?
Asher
We used both mailing lists, hotel's and ours (built from 6 years exhibitions in Bordeaux). Attendees were 50/50 from each list…

Certainly you both have made your mark. I hope the sales go well!
Not bad at all, not enough though, but their will be 3 more soirées… :)
 

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
We used both mailing lists, hotel's and ours (built from 6 years exhibitions in Bordeaux). Attendees were 50/50 from each list…


Not bad at all, not enough though, but their will be 3 more soirées… :)
Where is the price list, Nocolas?

.....,and when does the exhibition close?

......I see Jan 6th 2020! That’s wonderful!

Asher
 

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Superb!

Also very clever video where we see the lips just moving so we get and extra dimension as we pass through!

Asher
 

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Thank you my unique viewer!
Nicolas,

“Unique viewer”? Not at all!

Charlotte Thompson, Andy Brown have each followed you closely and Doug Kerr wrote to me privately in admiration!

I am sure there are others! How many times have you seen a bird image, street scene or one of my studio pictures and then simply had to immediately return to the job at hand, where time is of the essence, and you had no time to actually put your thoughts into text? But I know you do look at much more than you comment on! Likewise for others!

Just that I in particular am taken by your long focused career in beautiful imagery. So I never want to miss any news, especially of the leap to Claris as an “Image Building Agency” with the superb flair enhanced by Romain’s superbly crafted nuances of framing, angles, timing and movement which add poetics and lyricism to a foundation of already rich imaginary!

Perhaps I write too often and take up all the space, and have already said, right away just what others were about to write!

To me, knowing you, working together over the past 14 years, it’s seeing a fabulous plant grow and blossoms develop that open up to such impressive array of vibrant colors!

So naturally I reply to all your images. In doing so, perhaps I overshadow and inhibit others!

Asher
 

nicolas claris

OPF Co-founder/Administrator
After almost three months of exhibition, it's time to unhook the prints and the video installation, not to mention the removal of the outdoor poster…
A pretty nice exhibition with a lot of visitors during the vernissage, finishing soirée and private parties as well as "normal" days".
Some nice sales... We wish the very same success to our successors!

The 17 prints and Romain's film can be seen on the dedicated website

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Doing my best to peel off the outdoor poster under early morning light
 
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