Conceptual: 2nd Place Winner 2016 (professional)
ENTRY DESCRIPTION
"the Game" . From the serie "the Awakened" 2013
AUTHOR
• Born in France, 1959.
• Organ Prize at the Conservatory.
• A year’s training as a mountain guide at the French army’s Ecole de Haute Montagne in Chamonix.
• Alternates for several years between major travel projects and practising medicine.
• After his year in the Sahara comes his first exhibition – Jeux de Sable – at Espace Canon in Paris.
• Shows in galleries in Europe, the United States and Asia. (60 shows in 12 countries)
• Works acquired by public and private collections
• Becomes the first artist to be chosen by the foundation L’Art pour la Conscience, sponsored by Edgar Morin, and donates a work to the foundation.
• Is chosen two years running (2009, 2010) by the Esther Woerdehoff gallery for Paris Photo,
and for MIART and MIA in Milan (2010, 2011).
• Is selected three years running by Mac Paris (2009–2011).
• Invited by the John McDermott Gallery to the Angkor Foto Festival in 2010.
• Exhibition at Espace Cardin in Paris in 2011 sponsored by Edgar Morin, with
the backing of the European Space Agency.
• In 2012 he is named Intercultural Ambassador by the UNESCO
• Invited by the French Embassy in India to exhibit in New Delhi in 2013.
• Invited by UNESCO to exhibit during the Global Conference in 2013.
• Retrospective on various sites in the city of Metz, including the Musée de la Cour d’Or, 2013/2014
• Shows with the Baudoin Lebon gallery at the Art O’Clock fair, Paris, 2013.
• Black and White magazine: Award Winner, Portfolio Contest, 2013.
• Grand Prix Eurazeo for Photography, 2013.
• Publication of the monograph “ “les éveillés” 2014
• BENAKI MUSEUM, GREECE - Athens Photobook Show , 2015
• Invited by the Mairie de Paris for “Bridges and Cultures” 2015
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