04 — About
A soldier for around twenty years, I build my images around field experience, memory and transmission.
Introduction
My images are born from an attentive presence: observing, waiting, understanding what is at stake, then retaining what deserves to remain. I do not photograph soldiers from the outside; I am one of them.
Photographer author
My practice is rooted in demanding documentary photography, attentive to accuracy rather than effect. I look for images that do not force reality, but retain a presence from it.
Each series is built over time: observation, selection, editing and preservation. A reportage is not only a sequence of images; it is a way of shaping a visual narrative.
War Artist
As a War Artist, my photographic work has a particular relationship with military ground. It is not only about showing action, but documenting what surrounds it: faces, gestures, waiting, departures, returns and silences.
This position leads me to look differently at places and people. To seek, behind the uniform and the missions, what belongs to human experience, collective memory and trace.
Memory
We live in a permanent flow of images. Photographs appear, circulate and disappear. They are often consumed before they have truly been looked at.
My work stands against this acceleration. I seek to produce images that can be seen again, reread and preserved. Photographs capable of carrying a memory, even a discreet one, beyond the moment in which they were taken.
Prints
A print gives the image another existence. It takes it out of the digital flow and gives it material presence, duration and conservation value.
Each work follows this logic: paper, format, edition, certificate of authenticity and traceability. A print is not merely a reproduction; it is the completed form of a photograph conceived to last.
Conclusion
For me, photographing means retaining a part of reality before it fades. It means accepting that not everything can be said, while still seeking the right image: the one that remains.