Progressive Street

I was born in Paris in 1967, of Franco-Moroccan origin, I live between Paris and the south of France. I started film photography at the age of 14, I was developing my photos for whole nights; then detours led me to the staging of theater in Paris and New York. Impediments forced me to put one foot back into active life while keeping the other in art: Artists' agent and many other things...

The lockdown for me was the state of grace... I could circulate as I wanted by sharing my life with people while photographing them. That's when photography caught up with me and I'm very happy about it. We can say I'm a beginner. It is a necessity, this impalpable thing where you feel in your place, at home.

I wondered what was the link between my series of portraits made in the subway during the pandemic and my travel photos.

At the age of fourteen I surveyed Paris in silver. At eighteen, I wanted to see the world. I landed in New York for two years, with back and forth in Jamaica, Gabon... I came back, I went back digitally to get closer to the world, always alone because with several people, even two, there is inevitably a constraint. Alone, I'm in front of me. As far as my memory takes me, I have always had the need to meet the other. An emergency to live in the present. A photo is a privileged, decisive moment, vector of encounters. Whether in an enclosed space as in the Paris metro or abroad, my approach remains the same: it is in this connection that the trip takes place.

I find my breathing, my inspiration, my weightlessness, my adrenaline. In this adventure of wandering, I discovered the pleasure of patience. I made images because it was a necessity in my opinion. Will I be asked for my method? Sometimes I trigger my device, sometimes not.

We can say I'm a beginner

Will I be asked for my method? Sometimes I trigger my device, sometimes not