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Exposure Doesn’t Pay Bills

26 Comments 28 March 2012

Recently, I received a nice, innocent little letter from someone who claimed to be a student seeking to publish her research on a certain celebrity. She was very excited, telling me that she finally found a small publishing company willing to publish her booklet. As I happened to have shot some portraits of that celebrity, [...]

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Women On Waves

29 Comments 07 December 2011

One person, one idea… look at the outcome. Did you know that every six minutes, somewhere in the world, a woman dies as a result of an illegal abortion? I didn’t and I am very glad that Dutch doctor Rebecca Gomperts, former Greenpeace activist, had a great idea that is saving many many lives… She [...]

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Serge Latouche

1 Comment 23 November 2011

A while ago, I photographed and interviewed the economist and sociologist Serge Latouche for the pilot episode of a TV program on sustainability. The TV program was never produced or broadcasted, so I decided to share here with you a short extract of his interview. Serge Latouche is the author of many books, including Petit [...]

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Create Problems To Sell Solutions

2 Comments 27 October 2011

This is the Bristol airport and the queue stretching the whole length is passengers waiting to go through the passport control and security check. The queue is very slow and many passengers risk missing their flight. That would be a problem. Luckily, there is a solution: for 5 pounds only, you can buy access to [...]

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Made In Carcere #2

3 Comments 12 October 2011

Last week I published my interview with Luciana Delle Donne, the woman entrepreneur who created the prison bag factory Made In Carcere. This week I am publishing three interviews with detainees who worked in the sewing workshop. The prison is not a very happy place, during my shooting I heard women screaming and crying. [...]

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Made In Carcere

6 Comments 06 October 2011

Five weeks ago I published on this blog a post on the prison reportage that I had just shot. During the shooting I was asked not to photograph the windows, the doors, the locks or police agents. Guess what? When I showed the pictures to my agent in Paris – right after I published the [...]