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In 2002 I decided to leave behind my life in Paris and move to New York to restart from zero.
I left the bookshop where I worked and my gig as lead singer in a band.
In 2003 I worked as a photographer's assistant learning the basics like how to change lenses and moving around some lights...
While working as an assistant I still maintained my involvement in music and continued to work on writing and singing.
In 2004 I bought my very first camera to shoot the cover art for the CD I was compiling.
With this camera I started having fun training my eye in the streets of New York.
In 2006 I decided to pursue photography as a career and began photographing models in my apartment.
I wanted the images to be as raw as could be. No hair, no make-up and barely any styling. I just wanted soul in daylight.
These series of portraits were called "Before Fashion". As a musician it was the equivalent of singing a capella with just an acoustic guitar. My only mission was to make the chemistry happen.
The model and I were two complete strangers with different histories but I was searching of some kind of unexpected magic emulsion to occur between us. I was looking for more than just a friendly connection.
In late 2006 I began working with Peter Lindbergh and shooting the behind the scene still.
I began showing my experimental portraits to close friends. They quickly encouraged me to submit some of these portraits to Surface Magazine.
Thankfully I listened to my friends because I ended up one of the winners of the 10th Avant Guardian Contest.
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