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After graduating from art school he turned to documentary photography, bringing a sharply analytical eye to bear on society as, spontaneously or reflectively, he sought out people living their everyday and disreetly private lives. His pictures appear regulary in the press (National Geographique France, Animan, l’Express, Télérama, Le Monde 2, Courrier International, l’Equipe Magazine, Libération) and he received the Hachette Foundation Award in 2002. His work includes a 2002 study of the meeting of the Maghreb and sub-saharan Africa in Mauritania, and a series on people living in makeshift housing,shown at the Visa pour l’Image festival in Perpignan in the same year. In 2003 he contributed to the Ten New European Capitals exhibition, firstly on the Champs-Elysées and then at the Transphotographiques festival in Lille. After several stays in Mauritania in 2003-2005, he published Mauritanie – Lumière Noire (Trans Photographic Press). The images making up the book are currently part of an exhibition.Its work on the presidential campaign in Mauritania was exposed to the 19th festival of photojournalism Visa in Perpignan.
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