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Portrait of Réhahn
Réhahn, born on 4 May 1979 in Bayeux in Normandy, France, is a photographer based in Hoi An, Vietnam. Known as the photographer that “captures souls”,[1] he is recognized for his portraits of Vietnam, Cuba, Malaysia and India, and for his cultural preservation work.
In 2011, he launched The Precious Heritage project with the goal of increasing recognition of Vietnam's diverse tribes through stories examples of their craftsmanship, and large scale portraits of each group in their traditional clothing. The project explores the histories as well as the changing futures of the tribes as globalisation and development alter their homelands and subsequently their traditions.[2]
On January 1st 2017, Réhahn opened the Precious Heritage Art Gallery Museum with the goal of creating a single place to preserve the artifacts and costumes he’d been given by the chiefs of many tribes as well as to share the portraits, stories and musical traditions of the ethnic groups[3]. The museum is free to the public.
Réhahn completed his primary mission of meeting all 54 officially recognized ethnic groups in September 2019 and continues his research to discover the numerous subgroups that are spread throughout the country[4].
Career
In 2007, the artist travelled to Vietnam for the first time on a humanitarian mission with the French NGO Les Enfants du Vietnam. He explored the country and its culture and captured more than 50,000 photographs. In 2011, after several more trips, he decided to move to Vietnam and settled in the UNESCO Heritage town of Hoi An. It was there that he captured "Hidden Smile", the photograph of Madame Xong, captain of a small tourist riverboat, which has since been published in more than 100 articles worldwide. In 2014, he chose this photograph for the cover of his first book, “Vietnam, Mosaic of Contrasts”,[5] a collection of 150 photographs depicting the diversity of the country. A bestseller in Vietnam, the book is now sold in 29 countries.
The photographer’s work became known in France when the French travel TV program Échappées Belles (France 5),[6]featured him in a documentary about Vietnam on June 15th, 2016.
Following the success of his first book, Réhahn published “Vietnam, Mosaic of Contrasts, Volume II” in 2015 and “Vietnam, Mosaic of Contrasts, Volume III” in 2020. In addition to this series, he released two coffee table size editions - “The Collection, 10 Years of Photography” (2018) and “100 Iconic Portraits” (2019)- to showcase his photographic work in Cuba, Malaysia, South and Centra America, and the Indian subcontinent in addition to Vietnam.
NOTABLE PHOTOGRAPHS
“Best Friends”[7] Taken in 2014, this photograph depicts Kim Luan, a 6-year-old M'nong girl, praying in front of an elephant. Thanks to the press agency Caters in New York, the picture has been published in more than 25 countries and made the cover of magazines such as Conde Nast Traveler, The Times and National Geographic.
HONORS
In December 2014, Réhahn was ranked 4th of the top 10 best travel photographers in the world by the website boredpanda.com.[10] This article was translated into more than 20 languages.
January 2016, he was ranked the second most popular French photographer on the internet by French website lense.fr[11].
March 2018, the artist was honored during an official ceremony to commemorate 45 years of diplomatic relations between France and Vietnam[12] when Vietnam’s Secretary of the Party, Nguyen Phu Trong, who has since become President of Vietnam, presented French President Emmanuel Macron with a limited edition copy of the portrait “Hidden Smile.”
The same month, Réhahn was awarded the 2018 Trophy for French Nationals Abroad by the French information website “lepetitjournal.com.”[13]
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