Artist Statement

I took my first steps in photography in High School, when a friend asked me if I wanted to go with him to the school photo club. Having no device, I shared with the friend in question the use of a Soviet-made Zenith SLR.

Love at first sight came in the darkroom, during the first development session, as, on the paper immersed in the developer, the image appeared. It was a revelation and got hooked for life.

Later, I studied photography at Dawson College, and I kept a passion for photography. Through my various professional occupations, I have carried out several photography assignments, either catalogues or internal presentations. At the same time, until 1997, I never stopped making personal photographic projects.

In 1997, as I reoriented my career towards that of a programmer analyst, I had to give up photography for a decade. In 2007, when my wife asked me what she could get me for my 50th birthday, quite naturally, the idea of ​​a camera came to my mind. And it was the start of a whole new adventure. Technology has changed, the darkroom is gone, everything is now done on the computer. I had to adapt.

My photographic approach has always had as a guideline the search for shapes and textures in architectural details, in nature and in a variety of objects made of metal, wood and other materials. To capture them, I exploit the technical capabilities of my camera, the exposures of various lengths, the effects of depth of field and other peculiarities.

Since the spring of 2010, I have participated in several group exhibitions at the library as well as at the Beloeil Cultural Center, at the Maison de la Culture in Saint-Antoine-sur-Richelieu as part of the Lumières exhibitions of the APVR (Les Artistes photographes de la vallée du Richelieu), as well as to the Collective of ART of La Pointe Valaine in Otterburn Park.