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10 Favorite Photos: Nicolas Portnoi

A horse inside a house, an unexpected shot from a carnival, and a man surrounded by bidets: French photographer Nicolas Portnoi chose 10 favorite photographs from his archive for Bird In Flight.
Nicolas Portnoi

Photographer and musician. Lives in Paris, shoots mainly street photography, documentary photography and wedding photography. Member of the French collective FRAGMENT.

1

A man on a bike in the winter rain. He fell down just seconds after I took the picture.

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2

The silhouette of a horse in a house. It’s a night in Dunkirk, in northern France. I like to take pictures at night.

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3

It’s a real dog.

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4

During a workshop with Maciej Dakowicz. At sunrise. Everything came together nicely in the frame.

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5

A surrealistic scene of goat with it’s head stuck in a jerrycan. Peloponnese, Greece.

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6

A guy trying to pick up a girl in a Parisian metro. The window had just been broken a few minutes before.

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7

A nice colorful scene from Dunkirk’s carnival, in the north of France.

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8

Another picture from India, on the ghats of Banaras.

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9

Women waving gently at me while enjoying the Dunkirk carnival. I like using a flash, it alters the reality.

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10

I like to search for funny and strange things in the streets. This picture is an example of it.

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