About

I was born in 1951, in Roubaix, an industrial city of North of France. ​In my youth, I loved drawing and engraving, but unfortunately, my professional work kept me away from this passion I had developed.​

I came in Taipei in 1979 and in 2005, I received my first camera as a birthday gift, a small Coolpix, which opened the door to my digital world.

​In 2007, I started thinking seriously about retiring and considering photography as the perfect activity to reactivate my interest in graphic arts. That year, I took a one and half day crash course with a professional photographer and one model. The purpose was to recreate five photos with a combination of lights.

Besides the basic principles of lighting, my most important remembrance was from the model who told me that a model couldn’t see herself and needed to be guided. She was my first nude model, and I really felt shy at that time.

My self-taught had been particularly influenced by Sebastião Salgado, whom I greatly admire for the precision, accuracy, and poetry of his work, even in the most dramatic scenes. My love for black and white was also influenced by him.

I like particularly the "chiaroscuro" or effect of light, so popular among Flemish painters, which reflects a timeless interior of the house you have in North of France where I was born, but also the bright light of the tropics where I now live.

I personally like to work with amateur models where the relation between the photographer and the model is a game of seduction. One is trying to be the most beautiful the other is trying to make his model the most beautiful. And yes, the reward is to see the model’s happy face when looking at her picture. ​

For me, a woman's body is the most beautiful landscape, sometimes static something moving. I often cover nudity with a drape which I also use in a dance movement. As the line that distinguishes artistic nude and pornography is very tenuous, I always try to insert poetry in my photos to avoid vulgarity at all costs.

I hope that the emotion and atmospheres that appear in my work reflect and express my personal passion for Asia.