Fine Art nominee

When I began to see images of forceful, harassed, meditative, enigmatic figures rising out of the darkness, I understood that these silhouettes, while real, were also symbolic. They were bearers of something other than their mere presence: of a kind of energy, an aura inexplicable except in terms of the complex alchemy of the synergies at work between the silhouettes and a world to be transcended.
I named these silhouettes "the awakened". They emerge from obscurity, from the sidereal darkness, from places where all light is absent until the moment when life finds its way in. Life in this case is consciousness, awakening. These isolated figures always generate the contradictory forces that balance out our world. In doing so they keep us from slumbrous lethargy.
I then created created a formal structure giving these characters the greatest possible impact: an elemental, almost "skeletal" architecture, enhanced by "enlightening" contrasts. Once again so as to ward off distraction or going back to sleep. A black backdrop and, most often, a character within a landscape in which he serves as punctuation, in a meaningful relationship.

• Shows in galleries in Europe, the United States and Asia. (110 shows in 20 countries)
• Is chosen two years running (2009, 2010) by Esther Woerdehoff gallery for Paris Photo
• In 2012 he is named Intercultural Ambassador by the UNESCO
• Invited by French Embassy in India to exhibit, 2013.
• Invited by UNESCO for a solo show during the Global Conference 2013.
• Retrospective on various sites in Metz, 2014.
• Black and White magazine: Award Winner, 2013.
• Grand Prix Eurazeo for Photography, 2013.
• Publication of the monograph “ “les éveillés” 2014
• BENAKI MUSEUM - Athens Photobook Show , 2015
• Invited by Mairie de Paris for “Bridges and Cultures” personal exhibition 2015
• Winner of the International Competition « Spirit of the Mediterranean », PHOTOMED. 2016
• "Monochrome Photographer of the Year" 2017
• Winner of FESTFOTO BRAZIL 2017
• Solo show at MUSEUM MESSMER, 2017, Germany
• Solo show at MUSEUM of NEVERS, 2017, France
• Laureate"Academie des Beaux Arts" Paris 2017
• Maison Européenne de la Photographie, 2018, Paris
• Guest of Honor at the "Salon d'Automne", Champs Elysée, 2019 Paris
• VENICE BIENNAL 2022