ABOUT ME
It was for my thirteenth birthday that I got my first camera, a Praktica MTL3 with a 50mn lens; this was back in the early 80's. Should I call it a virus? I don't really know, but hey, since then I've never stopped taking pictures.
Although I did a photography school when I was a student, I mostly learned photography by myself, reading books, watching videos, talking to other photographers, but more importantly, getting out and taking pictures. I've the freedom to choose my subjects and to follow the opportunities I encounter, which gets me to enjoy even more photography.
Photography is for me a process, a creative process more precisely, which aims to create images, my vision of the world and which, in some respects, even exposes my personality. It is not a question of reproducing the truth, because the truth does not exist - it is at most an interpretation by an individual at a given moment, sometimes even ephemeral - but to strive to present one of these interpretations, mine. My photography is the fruit of an exploration to show the world as I see it, or sometimes as I would like it to be seen.
Photography as a creative process, starts from discovery, observation, passes through the camera and finally ends with the darkroom or digitally speaking, the “light-room”. Often times, an image requires careful thought prior to any shutter release, and that reflection also sometimes continues even after turning off the computer. There are also images that I would call inspirational images, instant vision that captures attention or comes from experimentation and which a few times, end up being amongst favorites.
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