Vivre en ces déserts: de l’Arabie au Tibesti

“I’ve been practicing TV reporting all over the world for almost 40 years and however, my first passion has remained the fixed image. It makes it possible to freeze the instant, the key moment, that’s why I always tried to keep a photograph of these single moments.”

Journalist in France2 (french TV), he began his career in the Muslim world in 1970, spending two years at the sources of Islam, in Saudi Arabia and being alongside pilgrims from Mecca. Seeing the arrival of these thousands of believers, he vowed to travel to the countries from which these men came, and he believes today that he has succeeded in his promise.

“My reports have driven me to the heart of the conflicts in the Middle East, the Lebanon war, the Iranian revolution, the Iraq wars, the tracks of Afghanistan and China for six years. I started my career curiously in Saudi Arabia, the most closed country of the world to the image and I was passionate about its populations living in the desert. I exhibited my photos of news reports in dozen places : FNAC «La Défense» (1996) Espace Belleville-Paris (2012) Festival de Valbonne (2013), ESJ-Lille (2015) festival international de Nancy (2017) Alliances françaises de Chine (2016).”