About Réhahn

Original Editions · Museum Collections · Luxury Collaborations

Born in Bayeux, Normandy, and based in Hội An, Vietnam, Réhahn creates fine-art photographs that reveal the beauty of a fleeting expression, an unexpected reflection or a moment of changing light. His work brings together intimate portraiture and a distinctive approach to Impressionist photography.

Réhahn, French fine-art photographer and author — official portrait

From Portraiture to Impressionism

From Hidden Smile, his celebrated portrait of Madam Xong, to the Precious Heritage Museum devoted to Vietnam’s ethnic cultures, his work has grown through enduring human encounters. Since 2020, Réhahn has explored reflections, heat and movement to create Impressionist images directly in the camera. Discover his wider artistic journey in the Extended Biography.

Flame, an Impressionist photograph by Réhahn showing a person in a conical hat amid a shimmering landscape — Flame — Impressionist photography by Réhahn.

His photography has appeared in international publications including BBC, National Geographic, The New York Times, Condé Nast Traveller, GEO, Der Spiegel and Paris Match.

Institutional Recognition & Museum Collections

Museum collections

Réhahn’s photographs have entered important cultural and institutional collections. Hidden Smile joined Hanoi’s Vietnamese Women’s Museum, while Illusion entered the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Havana in 2024.

Art in Embassies

The U.S. Department of State selected Hidden Smile and Tradition for its Art in Embassies programme.

A diplomatic gift

On 27 March 2018, Nguyễn Phú Trọng, then General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, presented an edition of Hidden Smile to French President Emmanuel Macron at the Élysée Palace. President Macron subsequently praised Réhahn’s work and the photograph’s symbolism in his official remarks.

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In France, the city of Honfleur is presenting Impressionism in Photography from July 2026 to September 2027, during the centenary year of Claude Monet’s death. Réhahn’s Impressionist approach has also been featured by the Royal Photographic Society’s RPS Journal.

President Emmanuel Macron and Vietnamese Party General Secretary Nguyễn Phú Trọng viewing Réhahn’s Hidden Smile at the Élysée Palace, 27 March 2018 — Hidden Smile offered to President Emmanuel Macron by Nguyễn Phú Trọng, then General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam — Élysée Palace, 27 March 2018.

Original Editions

Made to be collected

Réhahn’s Original Editions are limited to 15 copies worldwide per format, with selected works produced in micro-editions of just three to five. Each artwork is accompanied by an artist-signed certificate of authenticity confirming its title, format and edition number, supported by documented collector records.

Produced by a specialist laboratory in Düsseldorf, Germany, the photographs are exposed and chemically developed on Fuji Crystal Archive DPII Metallic paper, giving them exceptional depth, detail and a distinctive metallic finish.

As each edition progresses, the price of subsequent copies increases according to their remaining availability. Collectors also benefit from a dedicated mobile app providing their artwork’s story, edition updates and exclusive access to new releases.

Selected artworks are documented in Réhahn’s Catalogue Raisonné (French).

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Catalogue Raisonné (French)

Selected by international luxury houses

Réhahn’s photography has also inspired collaborations with four international luxury houses: Louis Vuitton, Johnnie Walker, Elie Bleu and S.T. Dupont.

Johnnie Walker Blue Label

Johnnie Walker Blue Label selected five photographs for numbered collector bottles, translating each image into a composition across the bottles.

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Elie Bleu

Elie Bleu created a limited-edition lacquered humidor featuring Elva, Réhahn’s portrait made in Havana.

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Louis Vuitton

Louis Vuitton acquired three Original Limited Edition photographs—Tradition 2, From the Sky and Sunset in Hoi An—for its boutique in Ho Chi Minh City.

Louis Vuitton story

S.T. Dupont

S.T. Dupont incorporated the Impressionist works Carmine, Imperial and Royal into a limited collection of lighters and cigar cases.

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Hidden Smile | Collector Milestone

Outlook Travel reported the private sale of the final large-format collector edition of Hidden Smile for US$150,000.

Books & publications

A Scholar’s Perspective

Éditions Hermann presents Réhahn, a book by Sylvain Ledda, a leading French scholar of nineteenth-century literature and the arts. The author of a biography of Alexandre Dumas for Gallimard and a contributor to the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, Ledda offers a sensitive, non-linear reading of Réhahn’s artistic evolution. He explores the connections between portraiture, cultural heritage and Impressionism, and the fleeting human and natural conditions that shape the photographic moment. The French edition is scheduled for 12 November 2026. An artist-signed English hardcover edition, with a distinct photographic layout, is planned for November 2026 exclusively through the official Store.

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Discover Réhahn’s Original Editions

Explore the photographs offered as Original Editions, discover their available formats and select the work that speaks to you. Réhahn’s galleries in Hội An and Ho Chi Minh City can also help collectors choose a photograph, format or installation.

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