I've been a keen photographer for almost 30 years, self-taught after a year in a preparatory art studio for the Beaux Arts, and I live and work between the Val d'Oise and the Hauts de Seine. Alongside a professional career in graphic design, publishing and packaging, I have continued to cultivate and develop my photography over the years. Very early on (in fact, at the end of secondary school, when I discovered Marcel Duchamp's painting "Nude descending a staircase"), my artistic vision and sensibility were strongly influenced by the great currents of Modern Art (cubism, futurism, constructivism, surrealism) and their artists (such as Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Maria Helena Vieira Da Silva, Alexandre Rodtchenko and Mark Rothko). All these influences have subsequently found their way into the aesthetic that I wanted to develop. Attracted by the repeated, rhythmic geometric shapes and the interplay of light, colour and materials, I soon became interested in business districts, industrial estates and, later, building sites. Lately, in a logical extension of my work on industrial estates and building sites, I've also taken an interest in other urban elements that are usually considered unattractive: buildings and facades made of rough concrete, or anarchic electrical connections. My aim is to use all these structures to create paintings in steel, concrete, glass and wood. My images are composed from real shots, and a system of double mirroring (vertical and horizontal), framing and decomposition/recomposition of the image allows me to emphasise the geometric structures, colours and rhythms that make them up, inventing a new reality of reality. In the end, the visual effects thus created are simply an amplification of reality and its subjective perspectives. Several of these photos (to be found on my website) have won awards in various international photo competitions (Silver Medal at the 10th Fine Art Photography Awards, Honourable Mentions at the reFocus Awards 2023 & 2024, ND Awards 2023, Annual Photography Awards 2023, short list at the PHOTO Magazine 2023-2024 competition).