three hours and thirty five minutes [ Night Shanghai – 夜上海 ]

2008/11/202013/07/27 Categories: Exhibitions · Experiments

A journey in the night of Shanghai Out from Huahai road metro station in Shanghai center, I walked toward south-east. It was 7:30pm and I had already entered the old Shanghai maze, Nanshi district. At this time of the day, a special life is raising, it’s a transition between the end of the sunlight and the deep night, the restaurants serve their last customers, people are doing their last shopping, face are tired after a long day. On the other hand, night shops start their business and hair salon never stop. With the night, I disappeared in the shadows,…

Namibia on the rock ! – 2009

2008/11/172015/02/03 Categories: Archives · Land Portraits

This exhibition relates Namibia as you usually does not see it. I’ve been there, spent about one month going around from north to south. Many many wild animals other there of course. But there is much more to see in this “nowhere” landscape. It looks like it is the end of the world…

Backportraits

2008/05/032013/07/27 Categories: Exhibitions · Humanistic ViewsTags: backportraits · china · portraits

I’ve been travelling in China more or less for ten years now and to celebrate this anniversary, nothing could be better than a new BOP exhibition.

My two previous exhibitions in BOP deal with two different topics but they express my feelings as a foreigner in this country.

They reflect my surprises, my view, and my thoughts. To end this first decade of Chinese experience, I wanted to give another insight on this country. Would it be possible to show China as the Chinese actually see their country? As a foreigner, when I take portraits or landscape views, most of the time, the framing, timing, focus, and subject are mine; they are the result of my own agenda.