India, Himachal Pradesh, 2019

“From a very young age, I began to photograph the daily life in which I found myself, and the subtle transformations caused by shifting light. Also passionate about drawing, I am particularly attentive to composition and the quality of lighting in painting.

During the course of my professional life, I have acquired competence in a variety of fields. These many experiences have allowed me to pursue a personalized approach around themes such as landscape or street photography. I try to capture images that we do not necessarily think to retain, because they are somewhere in-between the evident and the unexpected. Usually it is a question of fixing fleeting moments. Often such instants don’t occur, and I am obliged to return another day.

The Light Ray, Focaflex, 1970

I was born in 1952 in Lorraine, France.
I began my photographic activity in 1970, when my family presented me with a FocaFlex, the first French-designed SLR camera. Following graduation from the School of Decorative Arts in Strasbourg, with a degree in graphic illustration and photography, I began my career in 1975 as an advertising photographer, an activity I then pursued for 12 years. From 1978 to 1979, I moved to Houston, Texas in the United States. This marked the start of my personal photographic work.
Returning to France, I began to work with image banks in Paris, Brussels and Strasbourg, specializing in landscape and human activity.
From 1981 to 1983, I was head of the photography department of an advertising agency. In 1988, I joined the photography department at Haute école des arts du Rhin (HEAR), to teach photography. I was also in charge of photographic courses at the School of journalism, University of Strasbourg (CUEJ), at the Strasbourg National Theater (TNS), and at the Louis Pasteur University, for a Master degree in Science.

My personal work alternates between black and white and color photography, both within the genres of landscape and street photography.
Since 2004, I travel regularly to India.
I live in the Cevennes, Southern France.

Collective exhibitions:

• "Views on the United States" & "Graphics and Color" in the Landscape, 1980 Fnac Forum.

• "Magical Places" 1988 on the occasion of the bimillennial Strasbourg.

• "The Wind" natural history museum, in Fribourg, Switzerland.

• "Seasons" 1997 Alphex and Omeg’art association.

Book Publications:

• "Clos et Grands Crus d’Alsace" 1989 Legrand editions Paris.

• "Prisons d'Hier et d'Aujourd'hui" Saisons d’Alsace éditions.