About me

Speaking about myself is definitively not an easy exercise…
I could tell you that I’m always in search for lines, curves, alignments, repetitions… what do I know, to use them and combine them to create visual graphic compositions.
I could tell you that I have developed a personal visual art. How is that pretentious!
I could add that my favorite subjects are travel, landscape, graphics and is now aerial photography since I acquired a drone lately, that photography has been a passion of mine since I was 17, that the photographers that inspire me are Galen ROWELL, David MUENCH, Hans SYLVESTER and Yann ARTHUS-BERTRAND, that I live in the south of France.
All in all very banal!

In fact, graphics is probably what best defines my style.
If you have a look to my series, you will note that I don’t talk about storytelling here, although you’ll often hear a judge compliment a photographer on its storytelling, and from there it’s a short step for most people to extrapolate that all photographs should tell a story.
Sometimes a photograph doesn’t tell a story. While you can make up a story for anything, that story can be as simple as, “Isn’t this photograph just unusual or interesting?
As a photographer I don’t think deeply about what my subject means. I could create a series of images designed to tell a strong story but honestly, the truth is I capture what I see and enjoy the experience.
Sometimes, from below, it seems extremely boring, but as soon as you get up in the air, the transformation is simply remarkable! And even though you have been there many times before, there is always something new to discover. Near my area, “Plateau de Valensole” has become a sort of playground to explore and rediscover familiar landscapes from above.
Composition is fundamental to me. I take time to arrange visual elements, to position the leading lines to guide the viewer’s eye throughout the image, to create balanced composition.  I like working at golden hour when the shadows lengthen, becoming a part of the photograph. Capturing indigo hues at blue hour is a challenge. I’m very selective in the choice of my subjects, in search of graphics.  Texture is present everywhere in our world. Textures are an integral part of my subjects; making the viewer want to touch… well I hope so.
If you look close enough, you’ll see a little bit of all this within my pictures.

I would like my work to be recognizable…