About me

A simple hobby practiced occasionally, photography has become a real passion over the years, which must be rooted in the well-being that I experience being outdoors. I would describe my approach as meditative in the sense that what I seek above all is spending time in nature without forcing myself to produce images. I much prefer exploring, letting myself be surprised, looking for compositions that match the moment's emotions, even though I may from time to time go out with a precise idea of what I want to achieve or the project on which I want to work.

In 2008, after several years shooting 35 mm film, I decided to get into large format (4x5′′) photography. I never regreted what could be perceived as a weird choice in the digital era, for several reasons I will not mention here. More convinced than ever that film photography still has its place in the 21^st century, I recently decided to diversify my photography by also shooting with pinhole cameras (lensless cameras based on the camera obscura principle) and a variety of entirely mechanical medium format cameras.

I take most photographs in a modest radius from my home. I think that photographing in places we know well and regularly visit throughout the seasons allows for perceiving more subtle elements and creating deeper landscape "portraits" that are more than saturated postcard-style images. I much prefer the poetry of some intimate pasture in the Jura than the epic ultra-wide-angle view on some distant mountains that everyone will find beautiful for a half-second but that will stir up no emotion.

Though all my photo outings are focussed on landscape, I also like photographing human traces, wear and tear on objects abandoned or appearing to be... I love when the urge to freeze the moment becomes an absolute necessity, and the act of photography is, for me, inextricably linked to an ontological questioning.

March 2021