Behind the pictures
Field notes
I don't try to make reality look better than it is.
Most of my photographs are barely edited.
No dramatic colors. No artificial skies. No heavy retouching.
I'm not looking for perfection.
I'm searching imperfections.
I'm looking for presence.
A gesture. A light. A face. A place.
I seek to make reality beautiful because it is true.
Film encourages me to look for the essence of things, to hold on to a single moment, and to stay more grounded in the present.
Film has a presence. Its materiality is directly connected to our own.
It feels so alive.
These images are not meant to escape reality.
They are my way of staying close to it.
A new chapter.
After fifteen years working as a videographer and photographer in Paris, I felt that I no longer belonged there. One day, I asked myself two very simple questions.
The first was: “Are you happy here?”
The answer was "No".
The second was: “What is your dream?”
Without thinking, the answer came immediately. I had always dreamed of visiting Japan.
Three months later, I was boarding a flight to Tokyo. What was supposed to be a simple trip gradually turned into something much bigger. Today, more than a year later, I am still travelling across Asia.
After 9 months, it was South Korea who brought me back to photography, but this time through film.
This approach transformed the way I travel. Photography is no longer simply a way of producing images, but a way of meeting people, starting conversations, and understanding the places I pass through.
Film photography also gave a new meaning to my desire to write and led me to develop a documentary storytelling project, where images and words respond to one another.
Along the way, a series of unexpected encounters shaped the journey. Among them was one of the last five broom makers in South Korea, preserving a craft passed down through generations. A Buddhist temple hidden in the Korean mountains, where I spent several weeks between meditation and wild tea harvesting. I also had the opportunity to follow several Wing Chun kung fu masters in Foshan, southern China, dedicating their lives to their art and its transmission.
These encounters, like many others throughout this journey, continue to influence the way I see and photograph the world.
Every day, I continue to walk for hours through cities, villages, mountains, and backstreets. Rather than chasing landmarks or spectacular scenes, I am drawn to everyday life.
All photographs presented here where shot on 35mm film and developed by a renowned French photographic laboratory founded in 1950. Fine Art prints are produced on carefully selected museum-quality papers and shipped worldwide.