About

Photography, because I must

Photography is my love letter to the world and to the people that make it worth exploring and living. It is my way to be present in the moment, to pay attention, to appreciate life as it flows inside and around me, to breathe in the environment I'm immersed in. Mostly urban, dense and diverse, accidentally beautiful even in its most mundane aspects. Profoundly human, even when humans are not there.

I bought my first camera in 1978, a Nikon FM I still keep as a little totem. Ever since, I have never stopped shooting. Color slides first, B&W film later, switching to digital when I realized it gave me more freedom and control than I have ever had with film. Mostly rangefinder cameras since the mid-90s. I have long loved love their immediacy, almost transparent between me and my subjects. And I love the discipline of prime lenses, zooming with my feet. Since 2018, a renewed challenge: getting reacquainted with the complexity of the color image. And lately, slowing down my tempo, seeking emptier moments and geometries, less instinctive perhaps.

My passion keeps growing, helped by the support, advice and encouragement of a growing network of connections across Europe, America and Asia – sometimes online, but as often as possible in person, often becoming true friends. It is to all of you there that I owe my gratitude.

Shinjuku, Tokyo

Shinjuku, Tokyo

Books

East of the Sun, edition of 100, self-published (Paris, December 2018)

Magazine Publications

Inspired Eye, online magazine, February 2014: “Lightroom: a Street Photography Workflow”, contribution

Inspired Eye Magazine, Issue 14, September 2014: portfolio and interview

Inspired Eye Magazine, Issue 46, June 2017: "Japan", Inspired Traveler feature

Fisheye, online magazine, June 2019: “East of the Sun, un Japon mineur”, review and interview

Inspired Eye Magazine, Issue 76, December 2019: "East of the Sun, the challenge and reward of making a photobook", contribution

Inspired Eye Magazine, Issue 98, October 2021: "Fractured", Inspired Traveler feature

Pen Online, July 2022: “East of the Sun, Intimate Poetry”, review and interview

Awards

Finalist, Meitar Award, PHOTO IS:RAEL and the Zvi and Ofra Meitar Family Fund, November 2018

Exhibitions

Collective, Arles2Rome, Tevere Art Gallery, Rome, February 2019

Collective, PHOTO IS:RAEL International Photography Festival, Tel Aviv, November 2018

Solo, B&B Galerie, Mois de la Photographie du X Arrondissement, Paris, November 2017

Collective, Oasys Consultants "Talent Day", Paris, June 2017

Learning

Steve McCurry, workshop, New York, September 2006

Charlie Kirk, online workshop, April-May 2015

Claudine Doury, workshop, Arles, August 2021

Claudine Doury, workshop, Ile d’Yeu, January 2022

Todd Hido, workshop, Cosprons, June 2022