I grew up in a family of travelers, my parents were an engineer and a teacher, but not the typical type, they dragged their 4 children along with them in their adventures through Africa, Europe and the Caribbean. And when their marriage stumbled, they still kept going, this time each on their own route. That's to say that by age 15, I was the most well-travelled child of my little provincial school in France's Burgundy region. But I quickly realized that it was hard to talk about that travel in a little town where people had hardly ever been abroad and to accurately describe in words how those places were. Not necessarily more pretty, but uniquely different, impressive. Mind-opening.

I had no TV, and the internet was just launching, so my source of inspiration was my monthly membership to National Geographic. I was particularly admirative of the strength of the photographs that had the power to tell a story with one image. And everyone in my polyglotic environment would understand that story regardless of their respective native languages.

Photography is a way for me to tell a story in a universal language that everyone will understand. It visually shows the world from the point of view of the photographer.

Beyond conveying the subjective perception of the observer, photography has the capacity to reveal hidden aspects of the world. Fleeting moments, remote locations, small details or dynamics that happen in a time scale that humans are not capable to grasp such as the the passage of the milky way over our heads every single night. We are just too impatient to keep our eyes up for six hours, besides, even in the rare locations where street lights don't entirely eclipse the faintest stellar objects, the human eye's sensitivity in low light is insufficient to fully enjoy the show.