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Geneviève was my step-grandmother. Widowed, my grandfather had remarried with this poet from Nantes thirty years his junior. During my last visit at her home in Nantes, in September, she complained that her cigarettes had once again been stashed away.
Read MoreIt’s still dark, you’re sleeping, I sense your body more than I discern it in this blackness. I want to photograph you, again, who cares if I can’t see a thing, I’ll frame you blindly, the pose is beautiful but the exposure is long…
Read MoreMy friend Didier sure got lucky for his birthday ! After a sumptuous lunch, all the girls present at the party —and these weren’t just any gals, let me tell you — disappeared.
Read MoreIt was for a TV documentary, a long time ago; I had seen Sebastião Salgado hard at work, with two cameras, three lenses, and that was it. Like a warrior, he manoeuvered with supple grace…
Read MoreWhat a jungle! I progress like a tiger, through leaves and vines without a sound; my quarry cannot be far, almost there, I feel it so close, just behind those fronds, I prepare to pounce but…
Read MoreIt was the 70s, in French high school, at the beginning of electronics in the classroom, more specifically in the English “lab” where we were the guinea pigs of the new “audio-visual” method.
Read MoreSome radio journalists are true interview pros, natural hosts, microphone celebs like Jacques Chancel, Kenny Everett, Zoe Ball, Augustin Trapenard… And then there are lovers of sound, capable of extracting the best from a guest, without any upstaging.
Read MoreI have been gathering increasingly worrying witness statements from doctors and close friends on the secondary effects of the Covid vaccines. Effects both more serious and frequent than announced. Pericarditis, myocarditis, thrombosis, strokes, including among young people.
Read MoreMany are the texts written about dreams, but what of texts within dreams ? Dreams recreate everything with stunning precision ; people, places, conversations…
Read MoreThe very chic magazine “Gentlemen” asked me if I had any photographs of leading figures in the auto world for a special portfolio. So, I rummaged through my binders, past Fangio, Ickx and a couple more surprises, and…
Read MoreFor or against Covid vaccines, right or wrong, therein lies not the question. That debate is a smokescreen while our nations attempt to create a permanent health pass. This measure, which does not comply with criminal law framework, condemns its citizens, who have committed no offense, to deprivation of liberty, loss of employment and marginalisation.
Read MoreLife is full of ups and downs, bumps and ditches, demons and merveilles, sources and streams, flowers and fruits, hideaways and woodlands, cabins and castles, gutters to climb, poles of plenty…
Read MoreSpeaking of dictatorship, here is the world’s largest building after the Pentagon, dreamt up by Nicolae Ceausescu and baptized Casa poporului, or The People’s House. Isn’t this a bit rich considering that the construction of his megalomaniac delusion meant that he had entire neighbourhoods razed…
Read MoreIn life as in love, there are moments when things die down. The pauses where lovers catch their breath. Where they sit naked, just to grab a drink, a cigarette, and exchange soft looks of exquisite complicity…
Read MoreSometimes, we intuit a new idea, still a bit fuzzy, and it’s the encounter with a book that allows us to bring it clarity. A case in point would be Marielle Macé’s nice little book “Our Cabins” which helped me characterise a cabin as not solely a material construction.
Read MoreIn his book « Intuition Photographique », Arnaud Claass observes those who take selfies in Venice, Italy. These “self-focused photography-on-a-stick buffs, looking to reassure themselves that they’re still living the dream, and maybe to…
Read MoreThe obligation of the "Health Pass" in France is worrying, all the more because the Belgians and Brits have refused it given its disproportionate and repressive nature. But, why then do two thirds of the French accept it and are ready to impose it on fellow citizens with disconcerting zeal? One possible explanation…
Read MoreThere is a magic, an alchemy of black and white analog photography, on account of its medium, the gelatine silver film, of the manner in which it will restitute the seen thing after having translated it into silver salts. I sometimes give into photographing a scene…
Read MoreAmong the most exciting and joy-filled moments of my life, are all those waiting times, recurring, between shooting and getting the developed films back from the lab.
Read MoreMy dad used to tell me the story of this truck driver who, one day on the side of the road, noticed a giant hole. He stopped to admire this magnificently dug hole. “It’s not every day that you find a hole like this”, he thought.
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