I am a photographer, architect, and engineer. I advocate for a photography based on an interdisciplinary
approach: artistic, of course, but also morphological, social, and environmental, attentive to the history
of territories and their transformations, and focused on ecological issues.
Committed to knowledge sharing, I was a university professor until 2019, I supervised numerous projects in
France and abroad, and I taught architecture and (sustainable) urban planning, as well as photography, at
the University of Toulouse.
I've had several contrasting periods in my life, both in terms of content and location (France, Guadeloupe,
the United States, Brazil), but two constants have remained throughout:
- a photographic curiosity, sparked by my grandfather who gave me my first camera at the age of 13 (I know,
it might seem very naive), and introduced me to a practice that has never left me since: I photograph,
therefore I am;
- a scientific curiosity to sense and understand our environment and to grasp the frontiers of knowledge.
These two facets share the common goal of questioning the world by making the invisible visible, and of
offering a different perspective.
My architectural training shaped my approach to space, form, and light, and to composing and methodically
arranging my images.
My engineering training shaped my understanding of the relationship between humankind and its built and
natural environment, and to synthesizing my thoughts to their purest form.
This dual training allowed me to break free from the conventions and academic approaches of photography.
My approach is organic; I photograph as I move, remaining alert to the constraints of the scene.
The essence of my work lies in the way the subject dissolves into space.
I carry within me the power of the motif, a keen awareness of space, light, and matter. My photos are highly
structured. I approach the photographic medium with a method akin to architectural design: turning
constraints into opportunities.
I am a staunch advocate of "Low Tech," the best way to concentrate the idea on itself. Saying much with
little. The more limited the means, the stronger the expression. I seek to impose silence upon the gaze.
I also embrace the long term, if not timelessness.
I attach great importance to storytelling. Being able to tell a story has always fascinated me. Thus,
even my most abstract photographs contain an underlying anthropomorphic meaning, referencing profoundly
human and existential narratives, such as solitude, the fragility of life, and the fear of death.
Finally, I like to describe myself as a photographer-surveyor. My eye is always on a journey. I am
passionate about travel, in the sense of setting out to meet others, cultivating one's perspective, and
losing one's bearings. I would quote a Tuareg proverb: "To travel is to go from oneself to oneself by way of
others."
I have organized around forty solo exhibitions in France and abroad, as well as several video mappings.
I have published in about ten individual and collaborative books.
I am currently working on preliminary layouts for about ten personal photography books.