I started making photographs 30 years ago with exclusively black & white analog films. I learnt by myself, studying the works of other photographers, investigating different technics and topics but mostly practicing street photography. The transition to digital photography stopped my work for more than 20 years. A couple of years ago, I rediscovered photography with digital devices and software, learning new tools and appreciating a lot all the new capabilities... I am now focusing on expressive photographs, that might be not beautiful at all: I don't care.  We should think more of what is useful rather than what is beautiful. Beauty come of its own accord. Real beauty is not obvious but complex and takes time to be discovered. The word "useful" is essential for me because photographs have to cope with the complexity beyond the words. Astonishing photographs are too easy to be essential... Photography is a way to discover oneself and others thanks to introversion and questioning... 

 

From 2016, I spent 2 years improving my technical skills including studio photographs and all the technics made possible by digital photography: I had to master all of that because it yields freedom in composition. Now I feel ready to develop what I have to do... Working on different series, I use photographs to tell complexity of life... Photography is a mirror of my recurrent questionings... Although I am interested in other works, I am stubborn: it helps to follow my own way… my way of understanding complexity.

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I have no pretensions or bulky ego: photography is just a way to become more creative, keeping traces of what is growing in my mind, trying to exacerbate my feelings or simply keeping traces of what I perceive. It's my way to share my deep respect for everyday life.... my way of respecting others, my way of celebrating what the humankind did and what the nature is still... I am not a great photographer: I am a grateful one... deeply conscious of the chance I have to be alive, still able to shoot photographs....

There are moving pictures, some yielding more emotions than others, but anyway, there are no bad photographers... Everyone can point and shoot...

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I am a fan of manual legendary lenses... Voigtländer, Zeiss, Leitz, Avenon,... but also of old Nikkor, Pentax, Minolta Rokkor,... I am shooting only with such lenses...

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