Louis Dazy is a French photographer based in Paris,whose cinematic double-exposure images blend portraiture, street photography and neon-lit urban scenes into a single frame.,Shot entirely on film, his photographs favor night-time settings, where neon signs, headlights and city glow illuminate solitary figures with a mood of nostalgia and melancholy.,,
Dazy originally worked in art direction at a communication agency before teaching himself photography and posting his early work on Behance and Instagram, where it drew enough attention for him to go full time.He shot mostly on a secondhand Nikon F2 bought off eBay, using Kodak Portra 400 and Lomography 400 film.Cinema has shaped his sense of composition and mood. Watching David Lynch's Mulholland Drive at fifteen convinced him that art needs no explanation.He has named Stanley Kubrick as the photographer with the biggest influence on his own work.
Each image is created in-camera through double exposure, overlaying two shots on the same frame of film rather than combining them digitally afterward.,He rarely edits his scans, preferring to post them close to how the camera captured them. Night-time is when he feels most like an artist, drawn to neon signs as a kind of lighthouse for people wandering after dark.By a 2023 interview, Dazy had been living from his photography for four years. He has said NFTs give him creative freedom and let him build closer connections with collectors and other artists. He allows collectors to display and share works they own for personal use, but requires separate authorization for any commercial use.
Dazy is a member of the SOMA collective,whose 2024 exhibition “ECHO”, hosted by UNCOMMON gallery in Seoul, was the group's first international exhibition.He has collaborated with brands including Yamaha and Adobe.His photographs also appear in the opening credits of the Amazon series Tell Me Your Secrets.,His photography also formed the basis of his book Dreams in Technicolor.He first gained recognition in the NFT space through his drop Neon Life.
