At The Start
I bought my first analog camera 30 years ago as an amateur photographer. I discovered what was then a marvel for a demanding amateur: the Nikon F-801-S.
I made my schools with this wonderful reflex camera going more and more manual as I experienced traveling or making small series of pictures on subjects I found interesting.
Then I shot pictures of my kids as everyone does. Holidays and free time were always moments to practice and learn.
This curiosity and attraction towards photography never left me. I then began reading about the technical matters and the history of the medium and discovered great artists through books and exhibitions.
I always feel the special scent hanging in the Musée de la Photographie de Charleroi back then. This smell is forever associated with photography and its sensual experiences.
I was also fascinated by the evolution of art and techniques at the turn of the 19th century when photography took over in the visual representation of the world and other arts started walking the path towards more abstraction.
Life And Architecture
Photography has this fascinating capacity of stopping time and delivering testimonies of the things past to feed nostalgia or history.
I always wanted to capture icons of our lives to carry them back home and remember them in more difficult times: flowers and trees in spring, houses, doors,… and the mystery of what might be found behind them.
More and more I got attracted by architectural subjects and their graphic perspectives. I could not resist photographing hotel lobbies, rooms, monuments, bridges, museums and their daunting volumes.
A New Challenge
After 27 years of my career path in banking and finance, of which 10 years were devoted to the real estate business, I decided to embrace my passion for good and took up the challenge of starting a business in architecture photography with the ambition of serving the real estate industry with high quality images.
At first, it was pretty hard to step up from amateur photography to the demanding discipline of building up a vision and a consistent workflow.
I had the chance of meeting two great masters of professional photography with whom I acquired new ways of looking at my passion as a job and started building up my technical knowledge of composition, lighting and post-production skills.
The learning of new skills was still a hard nut to crack. But I began enjoying gaining control and having a more acute eye for editing (the harsh process of selecting pictures while casting away other parts of your work).
Building this website also taught me how to structure my work and keep a thorough selection discipline in the chosen portfolio limiting the pictures to 5 of each type (no more, no less).
Until now, this has helped me gaining confidence and credibility and growing a customer base of developers, agents, architects and designers.
I certainly want to pay tribute to my wife, family members and friends who supported me in my choice and encouraged me as much as they could even in moments of doubt.
A Passion for Architecture
Architectural works constantly share the most intimate parts of our daily lives. They protect us, our children and family, our work, our treasures, our secrets, our joys and all and every moments of our lives.
They organize our environment, our cities, our ways of life, our mobility and are at the core of new sustainable developments.
The way architects think of new concepts and the way all actors contribute to their materialization has a deep influence on our societies and the lines and volumes have never been organized haphazardly.
All has a meaning more or less readable at first sight.
The job of the architecture photographer is to best capture this meaning and symbolism that makes every realization unique.
I have the most profound respect for all actors of the real estate industry who all contribute in the complex process of turning a project into reality.
I have loads of images in my head and in my eyes. Lets put your projects in front of them and they will certainly match.
My Values
Because our lives are driven by our values and the way we see life and others and how we interact. Because we are not alone and the capacity to share our feelings and experiences is what makes us grow, expand and bloom.
“Photographier c’est mettre sur la même ligne de mire la tête, l’oeil et le coeur.”
Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004)
“The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.”
Dorothea Lange (1895-1965)
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