Photographie Plasticienne

 

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Graduated from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Bordeaux in 1986, I start holding exhibitions in France then in Great-Britain where I move in 1988.

 

My passion for landscapes, drawing and writing nourishes my black and white photographic work.

 

The late eighties constitute a turning point in my career when I take some distance from traditional photography.  I work towards a more experimental kind of photography.

My interest and pleasure in "making a picture" in the darkroom favour an endless research on new techniques within the landscape themes.

 

The images I create are essentially centred on various interactions between reality and imagination, black and white, text and picture.

The images are either revealed or erased and explore the thin line where these two territories meet and intermingle. Hence a constant questioning of this particular aspect of photography and exploration of the image.

 

My work is very graphic and always presented in a poetic kind of way.

Each picture can be seen as a poem in itself or as a "photographic haiku" as I describe it.

 

My photographic images have been exhibited nationaly and internationaly.

I have won  third prize at the European Contemporary Research in Photography in Royan and First Prize in the black and white category at the French National Salon in Argentan.

My work has been broadcast in France and in Great-Britain.

 

After living 17 years in Cardiff (U.K), I have moved to the South West of France where my studio is now based.