I am currently in Paris, France! 🇫🇷

Biography

My childhood dream was to become a filmmaker.

To that end, I trained in Cinematography over the course of a two-year technical degree back in France, and learned Photography as a corollary.

By 2020, I had my Directing Certificate from UCLA and job offers in Hollywood.

I bring all that technical and staging knowledge with me to every photoshoot. To me there is no difference between directing a model with a still camera in hand, and directing an actor in front of a film camera.

The lockdowns cut those Hollywood aspirations short, though. I moved to Vancouver, Canada to emulate what I had been deprived of in L.A. a couple years earlier. Ironically, I then had to deal with the double strike that also put the Vancouver film industry to a halt - so I had to make my own luck and start freelancing more to keep the dream going.

Today, I am an independent photographer and the host of my own format of Acting Workshop. I recently secured the distribution of my thesis film, and I am planning an exhibition of my photography work in Delhi.

It's the fulfillment I get from the process and the ever-improving results of my work that feeds my dedication to the craft, which in turn guarantees the reliable quality of my photographs.

I work hard to retain the privilege of doing what I love for a living.

A sepia portrait of a handsome blue-eyed young man lit form one side and looking straight ahead

Initially trained in Cinematography, I used to deplore the stillness of photographs and only practice lighting and framing in the context of motion picture production. Photography became a passion quite suddenly. I was simply thrilled by the challenge of capturing with precision - from the best angle and at the best moment - a fleeting subject, in order to encapsulate its essence in an artwork.
As opposed to the filmmaking I love and practice, where components of the image are manufactured and subservient to the plot, I came to like photography when it draws from the real world and is self-contained - each picture manifesting its own reason to be in its visual elements. It is, in that way, an ode to existence.

I never relished naturalism though, and I like to bring out in my framing, color-grading, and even sometimes compositing, a more conceptual, timeless truth to the subject. Like every documentary film has to be staged and edited to optimally make its point, each subject in my photographs needs a particular attention in order to artificially enhance its intrinsic qualities.
I strive not to use preset filters and not to impose a fabricated esthetic, but to choose the contrast, hues, exposure,… that help that subject stand out on its own - making the specific idea it reflects as palpable as possible.

Artist's Statement

A solid reflex, and the new generation of hybrid with a full-frame sensor - both with a set of two zoom lenses to cover the whole range of focal lengths, from wide angle to super telephoto.