DESCRIPTION
The beach is a contemporary place.
It differs from the port, the shore of a wild coast or estuary, by its ludic, human and sensual sides. The beach has grown along with urbanization, which it seems vital outlet. More the city becomes oppressive, stressed, laborious, swarming and concrete, and more the beach looks like an obliged shadow, a double saving.
The one and the other are two sides of a world that becomes focused, uniformed, interconnected while emptying its traditional values.
The beach is the dream which support the urban pressure. By its nudity, by forgetting schedules, with a newfound sense of freedom, with its horizontal lines and its imposing nature, the beach contradicts the city while perpetuating it.
In this project I settled in the dreams of my characters. With them I watched the wide, invented games, and especially let thoughts wander. Because rid of clothes, tensions, obligations, schedules, identities, we allow free rein to the images, desires and to unexpected surprise ...
The beach is therefore a pretext, a way of approaching the self shores.
For this, the real has here just the importance of going beyond.
AUTHOR
• Shows in galleries in Europe, the United States and Asia. (80 shows in 17 countries)
• Is chosen two years running (2009, 2010) by the 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 showt during the Global Conference in 2013.
• Retrospective on various sites in Metz, including the Musée de la Cour d’Or, 2014.
• Black and White magazine: Award Winner, Portfolio Contest, 2013.
• Grand Prix Eurazeo for Photography, 2013.
• Publication of the monograph “ “les éveillés” 2014
• BENAKI MUSEUM - Athens Photobook Show , 2015
• Invited by the Mairie de Paris for “Bridges and Cultures” personal exhibition 2015
• Winner of the International Competition « Spirit of the Mediterranean », PHOTOMED and LENSCULTURE. 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
• Maison Européenne de la Photographie, 2018, Paris
• Guest of Honor at the "Salon d'Automne", Champs Elysée, 2019 Paris
