Nicolas Comment

Photographer, musician and songwriter Nicolas Comment lives and works in Paris.  He published his first photography book La desserte (text by André S. Labarthe) with Filigranes, a French publisher, in 2001. It was followed by Le point in 2003 and A*** (text de Bernard Noël) in 2004.

In 2006, he published a book on the city of Prague in collaboration with the artist Anne-Lise Broyer, followed in 2008 by Est-ce L’Est? (Berliner romanze), a record-book about the city of Berlin that combines photographs and songs. This first musical effort was followed by his first solo album "Nous étions Dieu", released in 2010 and produced by Marc Collin (Nouvelle vague).

In 2012, following the publication of his book La visite, Nicolas Comment and Xavier Waechter set Bernard Lamarche-Vadel’s poems collection, "Retrouvailles", to music. The jazz label Bonsaï Music released it in 2012. The same year, Comment produced a new photographic series, the result of an artist residency in Mexico and published the book Mexico City Waltz. The series was also exhibited at galerie Vu’.

In 2014, in addition to publishing the book T(ange)r (postscript by Gérard Manset), Comment exhibited a new series of photographs shot in Tangier at Galerie 127 in Marrakesh from December 2014 to January 2015.  

In 2016, Nicolas Comment presented "Identification d’une ville", a major exhibition with Bernard Plossu at Galerie 24b in Paris, which assembled his work on urban mythologies of multiple cities including Mexico City, Berlin, Prague, Naples and Tangier. The same year "Milo", a new series depicting the artist’s wife, was exhibited in Vichy during the Portrait(s) Festival. The eponymous book Milo (Songbook) was also published with Chic Medias.

In 2017, his new series was exhibited as a solo show, "Reverb" at Polka Galerie and in 2018, Comment won The Fondation des Treilles’ residency prize for photography. In 2019, he was invited by the Planche(s) Contact festival to produce a new series of photographs, Cavale, which was exhibited from September 2019 to January 2020 in Deauville.

In January 2021, Comment released "Nouveau", a conceptual album combining music, photography and literature (texts by Germain Nouveau and Yannick Haenel). It was released physically by Médiapop and digitally by Kwaidan / Idol.