I live in Nouméa. Very young I spent a lot of time in my father's photo lab in Paris. The strange smells of chemistry made me realize that an image is complex, that it is built up gradually.

Later but still shy, taking pictures will be a good pretext to get closer to people and, in this precious time that separates the trigger from the image produced, to be able to stop my wandering thoughts by focusing them on the people photographed, to take control over time and the image to see beyond the emotions that emerge a posteriori of the shooting.
This was especially the case with the belly work where each encounter was so much more than a regular session. Words about belly aches, which the photos do not, or only slightly, and which I wanted to keep during the exhibition in Arles.

The lens sees everything, where the eye is at the work of selection from the moment you look. This omission, I can only grasp as a photographer late. This was particularly the case for the Cafédonien series (portraits of Caledonians at breakfast time) where the 35mm focus incorporate a lot of elements. And it is precisely from the analysis of this difference, between on what was perceived on one side, recorded on the other, in what it tells me about the subject and about me, that the meaning and the motivation constitute first of my work as a photographer.

In addition to the themes that I choose and that I have had the chance to exhibit, I bring photography into my job as coach / mediator and regularly intervene in schools or associations to support artistic projects.

I learned by reading books and seeing photo exhibitions (Brassaï, Depardon, Boubat, Martine Franck, Saul Leiter, Martin Parr, Salgado are among those who inspired me), then by training myself in body photography with Grégoire Korganov and portrait at the National School of Photography (Arles). I also took training in Photo-therapy.

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