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Born 20.02.1972 in Sète (Herault region)

  • Studies in photography/cinema at Leeds University (U.K.)
  • 1995-1997 : Photographer for musical magazines
  • 1997 : Assistant photographer Studio Daguerre (Paris) –Plateau preparation & light assistant
  • 1998 : Assistant photographer J. Foley , Opale Agency (writers portraits) & free-lance portraitist
  • 1999-2003 : Free-lance reporter. Different works done
  • 2003 – present : Free-lance photographer. I have developed a movement altermondialist
  • (PHAR Photographie Art Résistance) with Alexandre Girod (Web site being created)
  • Personal Work
  • 2006 Portraits and photo-reporting  on rap in Seine St Denis
  •          “Les oubliés de la République” Life of homeless under tents in Paris
  • 2005 Paris & its suburbs – daily life in ‘sensitive’ areas.
  •          Alternative environmental village of Sterling (Scotland). G8 mtg at Gleneagles
  •          NYC communities of the city (Manhatten, Redhook, Harlem)
  • 2004 The African hostel of Grands Pecheurs & youth of Bellair (Montreuil sous Bois)
  •          The neo-rurals – young couples ans saltimbanques , Luberon
  • 2003 NYC Communities seen from the street (Queens & Brooklyn)
  •          Parisian Artistic squats & daily life
  • 2002 The Altermondialist movement at Barcelona & Sevilla (1st European Forum)
  •          Streets and suburbs of NY (Bronx & Chinatown)
  • 2001 The Zapatist March for Indigenous Dignity (Chiapas & Mexico)
  •          Survival of the old miners of Silesia , Poland after mine closures.
  •          First film of a Polish director & daily life
  • 2000 The No Identity Papers population & organisations against precarity in Paris & Davos
  •          Communities at NY (Harlemet & Williamsburgh)
  •          Prague & Washington – Altermondialist mtgs against IMF politics
  •          Prague : Tourist book on the town
  • 1999 Writers portraits , music festivals in UK and France
  •          Rave Parties in Paris