I was born in 1951 in Perpignan, in the south of France. In 1967, I moved to Paris, where I still live and work today. I studied philosophy at the Sorbonne while simultaneously attending the Beaux-Arts in Paris, where I quickly chose photography as my main medium.
In 1975, I was admitted directly into the final year at the San Francisco Art Institute in the United States, where I studied under Jerry Burchard, Pirkle Jones, and Margery Mann. It was during this time that I began a photographic series on San Francisco’s Mission District — a body of work that was later widely published and exhibited. In 1976, I received a special mention from the Kodak Critics’ Prize for young photographers, and my work appeared in Zoom magazine.
When I returned to France in 1979, I shifted toward a more conceptual and art-based photographic practice. By 1980, I became deeply engaged with chronophotography — a technique I’ve continued to explore ever since — as a way to examine the limits of human relationships, both with others and with their environment and nature itself.
I setlled in a large studio in Paris, which I shared with artists such as Yves Oppenheim and Loïc Le Groumellec. I took part in numerous collaborative projects: exhibitions with Raymond Hains, films by Michel Bulteau, stage sets by Gérard Garouste for Adeline André, Alexandre Lenoir, and others.
It was during this period that I developed my major photographic series: Bras, Chronophotographic Portraits, Vanity, and Lamelliform Rituals.
Hail to Kerouac and Ginsberg.
