About photography:

Photographing, it is a little like holding a log book. It is an often interior voyage, daily, sometimes about the others, the anonymities or the close relations.

Photographing, it is also to try to stop time, to collect the fugitive moment, to catch it within the framework of the camera.

In my work, that I do not consider as such, I seek a certain magic of the moment: the meeting of the spirit, the eye and the heart. Certain shoots give me a kind of excitation at the catch, of which I share, afterwards, the emotion with others, when there is meeting.

The rigour of the framework is comforting; it is not me who is there, it is the camera which watches, hunts and shoots. I am then a witness, including of myself, in a fixed posture or moving, always watching, trying to melt me in the settings.

Sometimes, the magic operates, when finally, I catch the curiosity, the interrogation or even complicity of the moment. I am then a robber of images, fugacious moments which I try to catch within the framework, for me only, initially.

I explore also other ways, more graphic, sometimes abstract. The process is different, I create a reality that I recompose thereafter. It is at the same time a process of unstructuring and recombining of my reality. I approach the nude the same way.

I like to catch a different reality, the one which is there in front of my eyes.

About technique :

I do not like the technique in photography. This is why I came to digital, after having done some video. I like this practical aspect, fast which releases from the time constraints. I attach much importance to the original catch and prohibit to me, for the moment, any realignment or improves (except light and contrast), of which the effects appear to me often futile and anecdotic.

Some photographers whose work touches me:

- Henri Cartier Bresson (for his rigour),
- Araki (for his freedom and his composites),
- Rafael Navarro (for his esthetism),
- Nan Goldin (for her talents of storyteller),
- Man Ray (for certain shoots),
- Duane Michals (for his research),
- Laszlo Moholy-Nagy (for his geometry),
- Alain Fleischer (for his paradoxes).

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