About

I began photographing landscapes about twenty years ago. Alsace first — because you always start close to home, and because this region, which I thought I knew by heart, never stops reinventing itself. The Champ du Feu on a January morning, the Trois Fours in the cold, a Vosges peat bog wrapped in mist: you only have to return at the right hour for the scene to become something entirely new.

Then came Scotland, which struck me far harder than I had expected. The Highlands, the Isle of Skye, the Quiraing under snow. Tuscany, for its golden light and its geometry of hills. Norway, for its harsh climate and its auroras. Four countries, several thousand kilometres, one constant attention to light.

What has always drawn me is the waiting. Getting up before dawn, walking in the cold, letting the sky decide. Landscape photography is a patient discipline: you often come home empty-handed, and it is precisely those empty-handed returns that make the others precious.

Alongside the landscapes, I also did studio portraiture for a while — a period I genuinely loved. Everything is the opposite of landscape work: you are there with one other person, you control the light instead of chasing it, you talk, you search together. Through a completely different path, I found the same demand for truthfulness. The portrait gallery on this site keeps a trace of that time, and I still look at it with real fondness.

Then, about ten years ago, I put the camera down. Priorities shift, life reorganises its shelves — nothing unusual about that, and yet it is enough for years to slip by. The images gathered on this site belong to that earlier period, before the pause. I do not disown them; I look at them today with a little more distance: there are some I would do differently, others I would probably no longer have the patience to go and find. Perhaps that is exactly what makes them right.

I will pick up the camera again. That is a quiet certainty, with no fixed date. The light is still there, the Vosges too, and the desire never really went away — it simply went into standby. In the meantime, this site gathers what those years of walking, waiting and studio work produced. Enjoy your visit.