I have been a documentary photographer for more than 10 years now, and I divide my time between my family, my personal long-term projects, my wedding photo-reportages, and “item” the collective I co-founded in 2001 and which brings together six documentary photographers, a videographer and a graphic designer. All this fills me deeply, passionately…

 

I discovered photography when I was living in San Diego, California. Back then,I was teaching French at the UCSD, and I had the opportunity to attend photojournalism classes. For me it was love at first sight for this discipline to which converged most of my interests: visual arts, geopolitics, social issues, travel, meeting people, multiculturalism…

 

Back to France, I decided to devote myself solely and entirely to photography. Finally a small world that always makes me dream lucidly. I quickly met the right people who allowed me to start my new professional life. And this is how the collective item was born on September 12, 2001…

 

Very quickly I started practicing by taking my friends’ wedding photosBut from the start I used to shoot weddings as documentary subjects, and I liked more and more this new photographic practice. 

 

Over the years, I joined international structures such as WPJA, ISPWP, BOWP or FearlessUntil now I’m lucky (with a bit of hard work though ) to see my work regularly rewarded and recognized at an international level through contests organized by these organizations or others like Junebug Weddings. In 2009, I received the WPJA Photographer of the Year 2008 awardIn 2010, the Italian magazine Just Married put me in the top 5 best photographers of the year worldwide

In my photographic approach, I feel close to the tradition of humanist photography. For my personal projects like weddings, I try to tell a story or different stories with a highly personal vision, trying to have a lyrical and poetic strength in my images…

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