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
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