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DESCRIPTION
A black backdrop and, most often, a character within a landscape in which he serves as punctuation, in a meaningful relationship.
This character bears alone the weight of the human condition. His gestures, his silences, his impulses are universal approaches through which each of us can or must manage his relationship with the world. He is at once tiny and gigantic, lost and fully present. Etched into his silhouette we can find the reasons justifying – or not – his presence in any given place. A presence that could be inappropriate were it not for the fact that the force that drives him transcends the perceived landscape. He is a catalyst, he is a consciousness, Awakening is lying in wait for him.
The landscape is the awakened's testing ground. There the elements are potent, sometimes gigantic, often disquieting. The test he is undergoing resembles his inner landscape: lowlands saturated with darkness, roads to follow like some random maze, higher ground to be climbed.
But the landscape needs the awakened one, just as he needs it for his becoming. They complement the energy whose genesis springs from the equilibrium of their encounter.
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
• 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
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