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I got my first camera when I was a kid and the first animal I shot was most probably my cat.
In the 90’s, I started travelling during my student’s holidays, exploring the world with my backpack. I bought an amateur camera, a Minolta. A great part of the trips was making photo reports for my friends and family. Taking slides with a manual focus SLR camera is a pleasure at the moment of shooting because of the required precision. The magic of the slide show consists in trying to release the magnificence of the captured light. Film photography: another age?
After graduating as a veterinarian in France, I went in 1998 to the French Subantarctic island Crozet for a 15 months overwinter, working on a scientific project, the diving physiology of the King penguin. Since then, I completed my studies with a master’s degree in wildlife management in Quebec and contributed to many other projects, mainly in the Arctic and the Antarctic. The objectives of these exciting projects are scientific research and nature conservation. These expeditions bring me to remote and pristine places. And during the fieldwork I have some time to take pictures. With my images I try to share the beauty of nature and the feelings it conveys. Since my departure to Crozet, I use Nikon cameras and because wild animals usually don’t take the pose, I use more sophisticated SLR bodies!
I started snorkeling at the age of six, scuba diving at twelve and graduated as a diving instructor at twenty one in 1994. For some reasons, I started underwater photography late and it came with my first digital camera. Underwater photography is a great challenge. The choice of the spot depends on the weather conditions of the last days and the tides. It requires technical and physical training. And you only have a short period of time to find subjects ant to shoot. On top of that, the underwater camera is not an easy tool.