Architecture 1st place winner

The ghost city of Kolmanskop (Namibia) was built at the beginning of the XXth century and abandoned fifty years later when the diamonds mine was exhausted. Dunes are now invading the city which slowly vanishes. Through doors and windows, falling walls and broken roofs, the sand regains its place. Kolmanskop becomes a giant hourglass, metaphor of human vanity and all-powerful time.
Dune has no memory, no own will, no project. It is... Carried by the desert winds, sand erases the tracks of everything. Carried by the desert winds, sand is the present and includes the forgotten past, and an unknown future. Both moving and motionless, the dune is the mirror of the subjective time of the photographer who remains her footprints in the sands of time.

Graduated as an engineer, with a Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies in Signal and Image processing, I have taught Mathematics in high schools and engineering schools. A recent retirement allows me to devote myself fully to my passion for photography.
I'm a member of the Fédération Photographique de France (FPF). I have taken part in numerous competitions, both internal to the Federation and international, and the results obtained have earned me the distinctions of FPF Master and Excellence FIAP/Silver, as well as the FPF 2022 Grand Prix d'Auteur.
I exhibited my works in the most important Nature Festival in France as the Festival of Montier-en-Der, Phot’Aubrac and the Festival de la Camargue et du delta du Rhône.
Passionate about wildlife and humanist photography, I fell in love with sub-Saharian Africa, with its grandiose landscapes, its endearing people, its unique culture and its rich, exhilarating, fragile and hopeful wildlife.
- 2024 : Certamen Memorial Maria Luisa à Oviedo, Mencion de Honor
- 2024 : Glanzlichter à Munich, Honorable mention
- 2024 : Spot-Nature Meilleure photographie Animalière
- 2023 : Certamen Memorial Maria Luisa à Oviedo, Mencion de Honor
- 2023 : Médaille de Bronze aux Tokyo International Foto Awards