It's not always the most important events that create the most stunning images. In fact, it is a rarity that both an event and it's photograph are on par . More frequently, the event is so powerful in itself that no image can really speak of its magnitude. Same goes very often with cel...

29.06.2012[ read full story ]

Not much to say this week. I stood watching like Fabrice Del Dongo at Waterloo. I don’t understand and don’t really try, wondering if all this concerns me or if it will change anything. I just strike that fashionable pose with my arms dangling at my side... I read some good news in th...

29.06.2012[ read full story ]

For 7 days a week, every week, thousands of photographers compete with millions of amateurs for your photographic attention. Facebook, every day, see 250 million images uploaded. Your local publication publishes at most, a few hundred. Yet, week after week, it is always the professio...

25.06.2012[ read full story ]

Today on page 9 of Libération, in small print, a few pieces of news, like thinly smearing margarine on a toast: 
- Ethnic discrimination remains a reality throughout the European Union, in health care, education, employment and housing. 
- Zebu thieves are fighting against t...

25.06.2012[ read full story ]

There are lot of opportunities to take photographs. Most deal with the benin, as a record of moments soon to be past. We collect the instant, we share them with those we think might care and we forget them. The cemetery of images past used to be a shoebox, it is now an old hard drive ...

15.06.2012[ read full story ]

“Whoever does not like exaggeration should avoid the ocean. Middling imaginations fare poorly faced with its expanse. The ocean voids all symmetries... With its excess of clouds, breezes, seafoam, caprice and freedom, the ocean exhibits a perpetual disrespect for order.” We a...

15.06.2012[ read full story ]

This was a very solemn week, the Queen’s jubilee and the much anticipated release of the French President’s official portrait. In both cases, much to see, and plenty of commentaries about both “events”. I abstain from making any judgments, and prefer silence, listening to th...

08.06.2012[ read full story ]

At the beginning of the week, I was determined to battle with the prevailing disorder, the daily nonsense, the dashed hopes... but then Syria, Quebec and “luckily” a hideous massacre in Houla forced our newspapers, hunched over their calculators tapping out their profits, to ...

01.06.2012[ read full story ]

Life is always a hard balance. Wether we convert to banality or we run towards the untravelled paths, we always try to find the right equilibrium, the one that set us in motion. More than often, we seek objects to help find this precarity that we so love to discover. Photography certa...

01.06.2012[ read full story ]

In the end, it's all in how we depart. Whether it's facing the raging seas, or inside a limousine, surrounded or not by friends and family grieving, we are only truly alive when we engage ourselves in something new. It's all about what we have just finished and what we are about to emb...

25.05.2012[ read full story ]