Photographer, author, mountain leader, part-time utopist, ... in search of solutions and coherence. Born in Strasbourg in 1992, she grew up in the city, escaping only during school vacations. Ever since she was a little girl, she has spent a few weeks camping with her mother in the Alps during the summer. It was these fabulous high mountains, that attracted her... As a teenager, she took up climbi [...]
Léo Gayola is a professional photographer and mountain guide. His photographic work has been awarded many times in recent years at famous photography festivals in France and abroad. Léo Gayola is a photography trainer and organizes photography courses and trips all year round. He has already published 3 books on the Alps: "Secret Alps", "The 100 wonders of the Hautes-Alpes" and "Mountain Dreams" [...]
9 years ago I changed my life to devote myself to my passion for photography. I leave everything to go and live alone in a mountain chalet. There I know, my inspiration will be able to work. I feel like I'm in a Jack London novel, and I love it. I need nothing since I already have everything: the harmony and happiness of getting up every morning in nature and the mountains to do a job that I love. [...]
David Casartelli here! I'm a photographer based in Samoëns. Born in Switzerland, I've always lived in France, in Haute-Savoie. Of Swiss and Italian origin, I was brought up in an international environment. This openness to different cultures contributed to the birth of my passion for images. Photography came very quickly into my life, with a constant need to immortalise special moments in my trav [...]
Born in the magnificent Bourgogne region, it was at the age of 10 that I embarked with my family for a new life, in 1988 in the Ubaye Valley. Very quickly, we adapted to new landscapes and this environment that was unfamiliar to us until now: the mountains. While our sunsets were visible until very late in summer, here in Ubaye and especially in autumn, the sun very quickly left to hide behind our [...]
Born in 1959 in Toulon, Claude Gouron discovered the mountain and the extraordinary richness of nature, his lifelong passion, in 1974. He settled professionally as photographer-author in Sisteron in 1985, and finally landed in Barcelonnette in 1991. Passionate about all the pictorial arts, he tried several techniques : painting and sculpture from 1990, digital art from 1995. As a curious photograp [...]
