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Red hair in my Togo

   This weekend, unfortunately, I didn't have time to touch up. But I had time to shoot twice, so there should be something new soon, and something very nice.

       While waiting for a little return archive, and anecdote.

It was 6 years ago. A test requested by an agency for a Norwegian model who had just arrived at the agency. She had arrived late and I therefore had less than 30 minutes to take the test.

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under the leave nude with Lola ( prevue )

As explained in the previous post, the nude series with Lola in "deep forest" will be posted in full in this level (the highest).

As there are a lot of images to process on the shoot, it will take me a while.

    So here is, to give you a taste, an image that will give you an idea of what Lola can give in her best moments......

    an incredible model, and a kindness ..... to warmly recommend for your shoots if you go to Belgium.  ...

Mdl lola under the leaves

    Before working on the last images made with trixie in Normandy in my new place.

    I offer you here some images of what we did with Mdl Lola when she came to France last week.

       Lola is a model with a rather impressive way of moving. but suddenly, no time to think, you have to follow her, if you don't want to block her creativity. It's all the more complicated in the studio in this series.

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First shoot in my new studio

If you follow my last posts and read my explanations, I have already told you about the new workshop that I am creating in Normandy (near Dreux, 1 hour from Paris).

      As I told you, it's quite big, and there will still be at least 1 year of work. But I have already managed to create a part that can be used as scenery.

   So we did a first try with my wife this weekend, in 3 parts.

    Here the first part in...

Le cabaret des effeuilleuses " Raia "

   One of the rather playful things with the creation of this Patreon is the fact of forcing me to take the time to browse my archives, to sometimes find small forgotten treasures there. (when I say treasure, I mean the surprising meaning of the term)

       Here one of the preparation sessions that led to "La Loge des rats". The series was still called "le cabaret des efffeuilleuses", because I mainly worked with strippers from burlesqu...

Camille en garçonne ( archive)

    Session with Camille from my archives of the boy's book. Some are in the book, but here you have the complete series.

        A nice surprise, because I had hesitated to photograph it. Especially since she had hardly ever posed, let alone nude.

      I would have liked to continue on other sessions with her. But I never heard from again. And in my memory she never came to pick ...

deep forest wit Ambre ( 2nd part )

  You have already seen the first afternoon with Ambre (crazy horse dancer). So here is the 2nd part.

       I know I had a question about the set up of this series.

So I will soon try to make a back stage video and photos of the set up.

    To know all the same (depending on the sessions and the time), for the pros of the technique, there are 4 to 5 flashes.

      an octalig...

Tessa vs Birkin

The last time Tessa came to see me in Paris, she was on the arm of her new companion. A pretty cool guy, quite dandy (musician I think).

        She asked me to do a session in the style of what Helmut Newton did with Gainsbourg and Birkin in the 80s (you can easily find them on the internet).

       The challenge was fun. Firstly because of course Nextw...

Need my milk

First of all, as I posted a lot, I wanted to be sure not to have already posted this series. if so, let me know.

        A session from the series we were doing at the time with Lulu Inthesky "Wondercat". Comic book character she had created.

        We took advantage of the arrival of Tessa kuragi, and her incomparable chest to set up this session.

   I tried to purify the decorat...

why not a men?

   You will have noticed, I only rarely do naked men.

So why this one today?

     Apart from the series "the last fight", which allowed me to do naked men, and mixed duets, I tried my hand at pure male nudes. First for exercise. And then to find out what it could bring me.

     I have nothing against masculine aesthetics, on the contrary, I am also sensitive to it (revelation), but in photography it is a comple...

Under the leaves

You may have recognized Ambre L. With whom I have already collaborated several times in past series.

    Ambre is a dancer at the famous Crazy Horse. Although superb to photograph, professional dancers are not always easy to direct. They have grace, of course, and knowledge of their bodies. but sometimes it is difficult to get them out of their dancer persona, and to make them find poses that are not typical of dance.

     A bit like th...

1rst Test with Vyolet

  It is rare that I do a first test with a model in the studio. Because necessarily more complicated to set up, and less freedom of movement.

      But we had just received a Deep Umbrella XL from Profoto in white. So I'll really want to test its performance, and go back to the fashion images I did with when I started. Often harder, sharper than the light box.

       So I tested on a white background (with ...

Workshop " Boudoir "

Images taken from a somewhat unusual workshop.

Indeed, for once the workshop was organized by the model (Ameda), who had already posed for me, in particular in the series of "reflections of disorder".

       Indeed, she had found an apartment in the Latin Quarter of Paris that lent itself to the boudoir atmosphere. And she already had photographers who were in demand.

    So I landed in this leu that I did not know. Very...

Tryfor bondage Edito

You probably already know the series of Shibari with cats that I made for the American magazine "Treats". I posted the video here.

The series was born in fact from the meeting of Lulu and Leila Gorgone. Leila is actually one of the very best known Riggers in Europe. She was trained from an early age by Japanese masters. And besides, a few weeks after the shoot, she opened for Asaf Avidan at the Opéra Garnier with her performances.

      So, after the...

Les filles à fromage ( magazine Edito )

So happy to have come across this release, I couldn't help but share it with you. But she definitely deserves an explanation.

    It was an order from a brand new magazine, which wanted to combine good food, fashion and people. The idea seemed interesting to me, and I met the artistic director who knew my work well. She wanted to create a series in the form of an editorial with prominent women that would talk about cheese; and would be dressed elegantly, but above al...

Deep Forest ( Andrea 2nd part )

As I warned you, the second part of the series with Andrea.

Always with this sensuality of gesture, and this generosity of a body that speaks for her. A beautiful moment that I had been waiting to repeat for a long time.

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last moment of freedom

     I had several requests on Chloé to have other images.

Before she entered a modeling agency, she had magnificent shapes, generosity and incredible freedom in front of the camera.

    In 30 min she had made me dizzy, and full of images in my head and in the camera.

    We had left to do an editorial for Normal Magazine.

But in the meantime, she entered an agency (a big agency). He was asked...

the most beautiful buttocks of my debut

    When I look at this image, I see all the flaws first, and therefore the path taken. But the rendering ..... Because this photo dates from my debut.

     I was then working in medium format. The RZ67 from mamyia, for connoisseurs. The perfect format to compose; 6cm by 7cm.

     Incomparable luminosity. And on the negative (as you can see from the result), an expanse of gray scale that has never been equaled, ...

Do you read me???

   I will not talk about this image. Just to tell you that it's an old image that goes back to my beginnings when I worked at Mamya RB 67.

No, the point is not there.

in fact I wanted to know if you read the comments and descriptions that I write?

In effect; as the purpose of this patreon, for my part, is to create a privileged relationship with those who want to follow me and support me, I take the time, as far as possible, to give you information on the shoo...

Deep Forest ( Andrea first part )

Andrea had posed for me 5 years ago, in the series "The Last Fight". She was perfect for this.

today, even if she is a retail model for several parts of her body (it's up to you to ask), she devotes herself above all to her new profession, and poses little. So it took us a long time to find each other. but it was worth it.

     So we did a session in 2 parts, and there are a lot of images to work with. Hence the post of this first part.

  &...

first test with Fiona

     I have already introduced you to Fiona, with whom I have done many shoots. Especially recently in Deep Forest. She is also the subject of the book "No More Hiding".

Here is the first test with it, fast in the studio. While working on my "60's untold" series.

    I quickly realized that she had great potential. As you can also see here.

               &...

Work in progress ( new studio )

       Effectivement ce ne sont pas des photos de filles nues. Vous vous demandez surement donc,  pourquoi je fais ce post.

       En fait, ayant une relation privilégiée ici, avec les gens qui semblent vouloir me suivre, j'ai décidé de partager avec vous mon grand projet en cours.

       En effet, j'ai fait l'acquisition de ce local en automne dernier, avec l'idée de...

erotic analogic!

   As I had a lot of feedback on a first post of old film tests in eroticism from my debut, I'm sharing another one with you. 

      This time in medium format with a very sensitive film, therefore full of grain, in slow exposure. Hence this rendering.  

       The goal was to rediscover a technique close to the 1930s, which allowed me to work on the series  "la loge des rats".   2022-07-19 16:39:37 +0000 UTC View Post

"the Garçonne" with Salomé

   La toute première séance test avec Salomé qui venait de rentrer en agence.

   un gros coup de coeur pour son naturel et sa capacité autant à  être  garçonne en restant si féminine et sensuelle. 

    Un physique entre Charlotte Gainsbourg et Sophie Marceau, pourtant très opposées.

Before Deep forest with Julie

     I don't think I've posted these images before (tell me if I'm wrong, I'm getting a bit lost this summer in my posts. )

   It was in the beginnings of the research on what will become the "deep forest" series on which I am currently working.

With the luscious and sensual Julie, who unfortunately no longer wants to pose, too bad for the photography. She brought a lot to a session.

        &nbs...

around my studio with Julia

You' ve seen already Julia in the series " deep forest".

this time we took a beat of time to walk around my studio, as i like to do in this season.

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Julia a déjà posé dans la série " deep fo...

Madame rêve. ( crazy polaroids )

  About 15 years ago, I was working with a brilliant, half-mad photographer obsessed with Polaroid in all its forms and treatments. The real polaroid hardly existed anymore, there were only snapshots of Fuji. But we found their rendering much too realistic, and therefore uninteresting.

    He had finally found a technique to use the negative side and, using bleach and brushes, recover the gelatin contained in it. All that remained was to scan it and invert ...

video test with Anh

before project with Anh

    Just a few more images from the last session we did with Anh wise.

The goal was to do tests in view of a video clip that we had to edit for an ecological project.

it was unfortunately our last session because it was taken precisely as an elegy to several defense movements, and had to leave France just after.

shame. i will post you the video soon

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the dark leather

    An editorial that I created 5 years ago in my studio, published in New York, but I never received the magazine. The issue's theme was basically "cat nightlife". So I tried to build a series by interpreting it in my own way.

     A session that was not easy to manage. Between the cat who didn't want to stay on the set, the female model who wasn't warned that there would be topless scenes (and not comfortable with the idea), and the male mo...