Born in 1963, Florent Herry is a French cinematographer, and member of the Belgian Society of Cinematographers. He graduated from Institut des Arts de Diffusion in Belgium, and made his cinematography debut on the short film The Perme (1993) by Thibaud Staib and Emmanuel Sylvestre, followed by their feature Andre le Magnifique. In 1998, he started his collaboration with Reha Erdem, as cinematographer on his debut feature Run for Money. He worked on several films directed by Erdem, providing a very refined and complex visual style, which brought critical praise and awards in Türkiye and abroad: Times and Winds (2006), My Only Sunshine (2008), Kosmos (2009), Jîn (2013), which premiered at Berlinale, Singing Women (2013), Big Big World (2016). He won numerous cinematography prizes including from Association of Turkish Film Critics, Mannheim-Heidelberg, Brussels CineLab, Adana, and Antalya film festivals. Feature films that he has worked on as director of photography include I Don’t Like Sundays At All (Rezzan Tanyeli), Selcen Ergun's debut feature Snow and the Bear which premiered at Toronto, Yurt (Nehir Tuna) which won the Golden Tulip and Best Cinematographer awards at the Istanbul Film Festival, the documentary A Day, 365 Hours (Eylem Kaftan, 2023). He is the only cinematographer who holds best cinematography prizes from all four major film festivals in Türkiye: Istanbul, Antalya, Adana and Ankara. He collaborated with director Zeynep Dadak for the award-winning cinematic travelogue Invisible to the Eye (2020). He has collaborated with documentarist Pierre Stine for more than 20 years, mainly in En Terre Inconnue documentary series produced for France 2. He also worked in more than 300 commercials and music videos worldwide. He collaborated with Japanese designer and scenographer, Dr. Shizuka Hariu, as a cinematographer on the opera Written on Skin (2019), and the exhibition Face to Face with Romans (2020). Together with Reha Erdem, he created an interdisciplinary project named Mimirap for curator Lara Kamhi's exhibition Poetic of Perception.