“My favorite photographs are those that move, disturb, surprise, challenge, or amaze us. Those that encourage us to feel, question, imagine, interpret, and share.
To exhibit is to expose oneself to the gaze and interpretations of the public. These exchanges nourish me.

Muriel Pénicaud

Taking photographs means aligning the head, the eye, and the heart. (…). If there is no emotion, no shock, if we do not react with sensitivity, we should not take the photo. The photo takes us.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

« Photography is my way of taming the world, of sharing my disbelief, of distancing myself from violence, of warding off nothingness, of transmuting my shock into enchantment, of igniting wonder. »

« My dream is that the viewer becomes the narrator of their own story, soaring on the wings of the photograph they are looking at. »

« Photography sharpens our gaze. It makes our relationship with the world more intense, denser, more beautiful, more astonishing. We share our dreams, our nightmares, our tales, and our imaginations within it.

Photography changes how we see the world. It is beautiful because it is accessible to all, simple in its gesture, capable of capturing the essence of a moment and transforming it into a trace of eternity.

Photography modestly invites us, if only for a moment, to let our senses vibrate and to step together into the clearing of a more open and profound humanity. »

Muriel Pénicaud

I am 11 years old. I hold my first camera with gravity and emotion: a Polaroid with black and white film.

18 years old. With my savings and my summer job earnings, I buy a Super 8 camera.

My dream: to travel the world to film and photograph life.

Kyoto, Japan, 2005. My favorite photo. The one I didn't take with a camera, yet it is etched within me.
An inner radiance experienced in a small temple open only one day a year. I can still see this garden; it is imprinted on my heart as if on a photographic plate.
To be a photographer is to be constantly impressed by what one sees, whether one takes the photo or not. The gaze passes through us.

Marquenterre Park, in the Bay of Somme, 2018. Photographing a bird taking flight means waiting for it and welcoming the surprise. It's more like gathering than hunting. The bird's flight is a hundred times faster than the pressure of a finger on the camera's shutter. It is therefore necessary to embrace the silence, learn patience, sense and anticipate the moment when the bird will take flight, through imperceptible signs that are a language that he and I share a little more each year. Happiness lies in this complicity, in this offering, in the beauty of what happens. Photographing flight is contemplative, almost a meditation, it is very Yin.

Arles, 2012. Self-portrait taken at arm's length with my Nikon (I didn't have an iPhone yet), in front of the Arles photography festival poster.
After a very long break from photography dedicated to my travels and my family, my passion for photography is reborn from the embers, and this time I listen to it.

Moscow (among my many travels), 2017. The double joy of travel and photography.
A feeling of fulfilling my childhood dreams. Everything amazes me, everything captivates me, everything draws me further.

Reims, 2023. Photography is a never-ending game of light, mystery, and lightness.