Biography

Born in Lyon in 1982, I live in Nice.
My work is built along with my peregrinations, streets, people I meet. I take candid photographs, I try to capture the instant, to tell a story by taking photographs of small details.
My eyes are attracted by the geometrical lines designed by cities and landscapes, by street scenes.
The structured/elaborate graphic composition is part of what I'm looking for and can be found in my whole work except for a few very different series.
The plays of shadow and light which allow to sculpt pictures are also important in my choices.
I like to compose with geometry, shapes, streets and passers-by.

I’ve always loved seeing things at a higher point, from above. The viewpoint up high flattens the perspectives and conveys the impression of a world in miniature.

The pictures are made in a similar way: one or many characters, seen from above, attend to their businesses on those concrete beaches. In the framing, they are isolated against a concrete background. The light is overwhelming and omnipresent. The characters in bathing suits stand out on those backgrounds that evolve with the light from gray to ocher. Or perhaps are they lost in this background? The contrast is dual: the bright saturated colors of the characters oppose the color of concrete. In a similar pattern, this rough hard gray-ocher background opposes the fragility of the characters’ almost naked bodies.

The reading of the picture is not immediate, it is ambiguous. The person watching it can get lost before understanding what he’s looking at: are we in front of a wall? Are the characters the continuity of the background? Do they invade the background or are they overwhelmed by it?

Favorite pictures