BIOGRAPHY

In 2011, I made the bold decision to redirect my professional life into my self-guided passion, photography. I worked as an interior designer in Paris for more than ten years. Throughout that time I was very focused on the use of space and acquired a sensitivity that has greatly influenced my approach to volume in photography.

At night, light and space are my sources of inspiration, experimentation and confrontation - but above all, of fulfilment. I pierce the night using physical movement, as well as using light in order to see beyond what is visible, to a place where the blackness has not yet absorbed everything.

I have accomplished various large-scale artistic projects, often in partnership with private and public institutions. Notably, my project with the Hotel National des Invalides - which granted me access to all of the military sites in Ile de France - enabled me to bring to light this fragment of history in a large exposition in the moat of the Invalides. I also had the opportunity to work with the RATP (state owned public transport), who commissioned me to enter a disused marshalling yard where their entire collection of rolling stock is preserved, covering 100 years of history. The images created were exhibited during «Les Journées du Patrimoine» (the Heritage Days) within their workshop-museum. And more recently, The Opera House of Paris commissioned me to create images and videos for the communication of the season 20/21.

The cities and their nocturnal vestiges have been sacred fields of investigation for me, as much for their architectural lines as for the histories to which they bear witness. Arising from an awareness of and sensitivity to modern society - alongside the fact that I live in a city - nature has become my source of regeneration.

My passion for architecture photography is also daytime, a way to return to my first love, interior design. So I take in pictures the projects of architectural firms, Interior Designers, renovation agencies, real estate agencies...

Holder of the French ULM plane license, I create aerial shots with drones.

EXHIBITIONS

SOLO SHOWS

2016 Incandescence, Studio P.C.P., Paris (February 17th > April 19th)
2015 Incandescence, Little Big Galerie, Paris (November 10th > December 13th) Patrimoine Enchantée, for "les Journées du Patrimoine", organized by RATP ( September 19th > 20th) 2014 Les Armées Lumières, Hôtel National des Invalides, Paris (May 14th > June 29th)

GROUP SHOWS

2023 Qui-vive! - Galerie du côté, Biarritz, France (September 15th > October 27th) 2022 Landscapes - Galerie DALTRA, Megève (December 2nd > February 12th 2023) 2020 Un voyage émotionnel au pays de Fontainebleau, Fontainebleau Tourism (October 2nd > November 20th) 2019 Baci della luna - Studio tiepolo 38, Rome (July 4th > July 20th)
2018 Festival Photo Schiedam, Holland (October 18th > October 20th) 2016 Hors Cadres, CT Gallery, Megève (October 7th > December 11th) Territoires Imaginaires, CT Gallery, Megève (June 4th > July 22nd) 2013 Rues, Galerie des Autres, Paris (November 21st > 24th) French May, XXX Gallery, Hong Kong (June 6th > 12th)

PUBLICATIONS :

Aesthetica Magazine - Compétence photo - COOPH - Direct Matin - ELLE - Fubiz - Ignant - Interlocutor - Libération - Neim - Nikon club - Ppaper Mag - Phototrend - Réponses Photo - Story QPAC - The Forest - Yatzer

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