Represented by VIA
www.via-agence.com
Solo exhibitions
Watasia, Les Mesnographies festival, Les Mesnuls, France, 2027, scheduled
Døgnvill, Electric azure, Photodoc, Paris, France, 2026, scheduled
Døgnvill, Itinéraires des photographes voyageurs festival, with a fragrance, a sound journey and a spiral on the floor installation, to trigger a vertigo feeling, in collaboration with Claude and Benoît Luy (perfumes), Ophir Lévy, Priscille Villerelle, Pascal Bricard, Théo Grammont (sound), Bordeaux, France, 2025
Døgnvill, Les Arches citoyennes, Paris, France, 2024
Døgnvill, Halsnøy Kloster, Norway, 2023
Aerolite, Mots-Clés, Paris, France, 2022
Shards of life, La Philharmonie de Paris, France, 2016
Striking back, Soho, Mulhouse, France, 2011
Striking back, La Mécanique ondulatoire, Paris, France, 2010
Striking back, Eclat de Mode, Paris, France, 2010
Group exhibitions
Watasia, Festival Off Arles, projection, Arles, France, 2026
Watasia, The Essaouira Photo Rendez-vous, projection, Essaouira, Morocco, 2025
Døgnvill, Photo Bridge, Halle des Blancs Manteaux, Paris, France, 2025
Døgnvill, House of Wonders, Sunnhordland Museum, Halsnøy Kloster, Norway, 2025
Watasia, Archifoumi, Les Arches citoyennes, Paris, France, 2024
Aerolite, Espace Coco, with Valérie Fougeirol, curator, Paris, France, 2023
Electric Azure, Manuel Rivera-Ortiz foundation, projection, Arles, France, 2021
Is madness a CRY?, Fanton courtyard, Arles, France, 2019
Performances
Cercles by Boris Charmatz, participation to a performance with 200 dancers and Boris Charmatz’s company, Grand Palais, Paris, France, 2025
Watasia, video, photo performances and sound projection, with Sebastien Siraudeau, Essaouira, Morocco, 2025
The way of flowers, prologue, Les Arches citoyennes, performances and installations with suspended flowers, inspired from japanese ikebana, with Aurore Monteil, Paris, France, 2025 / Aurore Monteil : https://4astudio.carbonmade.com/
Watasia, performance and installation, “The glorious siesta”, with Aurore Monteil, Les Arches citoyennes, Paris, France, 2024
Døgnvill, a photo projection with holistic scents, for an audience, with Claude et Benoît Luy, Les Arches citoyennes, Paris, France, 2023
Døgnvill, collective naps to trigger surrealistic staged photography, with theatre students, Halsnøy Kloster, Norway, 2022
Døgnvill, video performance, the body, completely painted in red by three strangers, on the seashore, Halsnøy Kloster, Norway, 2022
Watasia, a series of photographic performances involving strangers, for photos staged on the spot, Banyuls-sur-Mer, France, 2022
James Blonde, a video conference discussion recorded during the Covid-19 pandemic, in which the character James Blonde speaks a secret language, Paris, France, 2020
Ego crash test, video and photo performance confronting my ego, with Joris Bazin, Sénart forest, France, 2019
My ass, photo-performance, a poetic, furtive appearing of My ass in the landscape, with Ophir Lévy, Portugal and Spain, 2000
Hornolulu, photo-performance, running around the island of Oahu in 5 days, 230 km with my camera, with Ken Amstrong, head of Habitat for Humanity, Hawaii, United-States, 1998
Residencies
Riad Chbanate, with Oeildeep, Watasia, Essaouira, Morocco, 2025
Les Arches citoyennes, Watasia, Paris, France, 2024
Sunnhordland Museum, Døgnvill, Halsnøy Kloster, Norway, 2022
Cosprons, with Eyes in Progress, Watasia, Banyuls-sur-Mer, France, 2022
Awards, grants
Selected, Mentor award, Freelens, The Comédie française lovers, Arles, France, 2026
Finalist, Fotograf magazine open call, Døgnvill, Prague, Czech Republic, 2026
Selected, Mentor award, Freelens, Døgnvill, Bordeaux, France, 2025
Shortlisted, Malevoz cultural district, Watasia, Malevoz, Switzerland, 2024
Shortlisted, Tremplin Jeunes Talents, Watasia, Deauville, France, 2022, 2023 et 2024
Collections
Sunnhordland Museum, Halsnøy, Norvège
Publications
Døgnvill, House of Wonders, exhibition catalog, Norvège, 2025
Electric Azure, 9 lives magazine, France, 2021
Technicolor future, 9 lives magazine, France, 2020
Is madness a CRY?, Arles workshops gallery, France, 2019
EDUCATION
2006 – 2026: TRAINING COURSES and MENTORING
OEILDEEP, masterclass, with Sonia Seraidarian, Laura Serani, Jean-Christian Bourcart and Stefano De Luigi, France, 2025-2026
WELL DONE JOHN, developing your work as an author with Laure Bouvet and Marie Valat, France, 2025
PHOTODOC, photo-biography, with Valentin Bardawil and Christine Delory-Momberger, France, 2025
LA.IMA, several mentoring sessions, with Oleñka Carrasco and Ioana Mello, France, 2025
OEILDEEP, beyond the sight, with Diana Lui, Morocco, 2025
PARFUMS D’EVEIL, holistic perfumery, with Claude and Benoît Luy, Switzerland, 2024
LA.IMA, several mentoring sessions, with Oleñka Carrasco and Ioana Mello, France, 2024
L’OEIL DE L’ESPRIT, photobook making, with Eric Cez (éditions Loco) and Marie Sepchat (The(M) éditions), France, 2023
LES GOBELINS, Photoshop advanced training, France, 2022
EYES IN PROGRESS, create a photographic story in immersion, with Claudine Doury, France, 2022
OEILDEEP, masterclass, with Sonia Seraidarian, Laura Serani, Jean-Christian Bourcart and Stefano De Luigi, France, 2019-2020
LES RENCONTRES, finding your photographic language, with Jean-Christian Bourcart, France, 2019
EYES IN PROGRESS, developement in the artistic milieu, with Valérie Fougeirol, France, 2019
OLIVIER HILAIRE, plastic artist and iconographer, numerous mentoring sessions, France, 2013 – 2019
INA – TENDANCE FLOUE, organising a photo exhibition, with Mat Jacob, France, 2015
ENS LOUIS LUMIERE, Chroma and Raw development, France, 2013
EMI – CFD, digital photography, France, 2006
2002 – 2003: PARIS I university
Advanced Studies Diploma, in African Anthropology with compliments of the Jury
1996 – 2000: SCIENCES PO PARIS
Graduate in the Department of Communication and Human Resources (CRH)
Certificate of International Studies, London School of Economics, 1997-1998
LANGUAGES
English: fluent
Watasian : fluent
Spanish: good level
LEISURE ACTIVITIES, INTERESTS
Triathlon
Ecstatic danse
Clown theatre
Singing in a choir
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