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(En) - Humanitarian and social issues Photojournalist, based in Paris, France. Working for NGOs worldwide. I have been documenting the work of Abbé Pierre and Emmaüs communities through the world for 10 years (1997-2007). My work as been diffused by Corbis-Sygma Photo agency and Agence VU'. It has been exposed at Scoop & Journalism Festival at Angers, France in 1999 and selected at Visa pour l'Image at Perpignan, France in 2004. My photographs has been published in several magazines and newspapers (Paris Match, Le Figaro magazine, VSD, Libération, National Geographic, TIME, Le Monde 2, The Times, The Kathmandu Post, Panorama, La Vie...) and in several NGOs newsletters (Médecins du Monde, Emmaüs International, Messages...) My work is focusing on Human Rights, ie two main issues : Exclusion and Environment.
FEATURES MAGAZINE STORIES:
1997, La mode dans le métro, France
1998, L'école du bout du Monde, Népal
2000, Pécheurs Vézo, Madagascar
2001, Cutty Sark Tall Ships Race, Norvège
2003, Passage du Nord-Ouest, Canada Arctique
2004, Hussein's Fancy Cars, Irak

EXCLUSION FEATURES STORIES:
1997, Emmaüs, une communauté de vie, France
1998, Slums, Inde
1999, Harlem, USA
2000, La poudrière, Belgique
2001, Favela, Brésil
2002, Les coulisses de Pétra, Jordanie
2002, Les exilés de la Bekka, Liban
2002, La prison de Khyam, Sud Liban
2002, SDF, France
2003, La Burqua, Afghanistan
2003, Koudougou, Burkina Faso
2004, The Castel, Irak
2004, Bhutanese Refugee Camps, Nepal
2005, The Pool, Congo
2006, Kibirizi, RDC
2006, Enfants soldats, RDC
2006, Viol, arme de guerre, RDC
2006, HIV, Rwanda
2008, Tibetans, Népal

ENVIRONMENT FEATURES STORIES:
1997, Fin de Carrières, France
2004, L'eau, Inde
2006, Sahel, Niger
2007, Le peuple de l'eau, Bénin

MAIN EXHIBITIONS:
1990, Class Car of Moisson, Yvelines, France
1992, Cluan Meala, village d'Irlande, Paris
1996, Terre de Chine(s), Paris
1997, Les collines de Shivapuri, Paris
1998, Fin de Carrières, Gallerie PhotoBis, Paris
1999, Emmaüs 50 ans, Sygma, Festival du Scoop et du Journalisme, Angers
1999, L'école du bout du Monde, Mairie de Paris
1999, L'école du bout du Monde, Forum des Solidarité Nord-Sud, Agen
1999, Dennemont, une communauté Emmaüs, Hotel de ville de Mantes-la-Jolie
1999, Deepalaya, Aide & Action, FNAC, Paris
2000, Une bibliothèque pour Madagascar, Alter Eco, Paris
2001, Cutty Sark, VSD, Objectif Bastille, Paris

FESTIVALS :
1999, Emmaüs 50 ans, SYGMA, Festival du Scoop et du Journalisme, Angers
2004, L'oeuvre de l'abbé Pierre à travers le monde, VU, Visa pour l'Image, Perpignan
(En) - My studies in Sociology and Ethnology have led me to humanitarian photography, sort of gateway between my passion and my vocation. In a world where everything goes faster and faster, men like information, photography implies to take one's time, to observe and share with others.