Published in Issue 24 - Central America: a forgotten subcontinent? It was a venture that left him with a hunger for information and print media as well as teamwork and collaborative projects. In , encouraged by this experience and inspired by photographers who were already teaming up to invent new forms of collaboration, he co-founded Collectif Item , a space for exchanging ideas and fostering emulation where he was able to both stay true to his photographic engagement and his social convictions.
Since then, this production and distribution workspace has enabled him to launch and disseminate his documentary projects. Initially very much involved with the press, in he became part of a long-term project on migration issues in France, which he remained firmly committed to until The project was also the subject of multiple press publications and acquisitions for public collections.
After a pivotal meeting with Prison Insider, an information platform on prisons worldwide, they devised together the InsideOutside project, photographic corres pondence with prison inmates all over the world. A book of the same name, compiled with his co-author Clara Grisot, will be published by Libel in November He also writes about these three subjects.
Over the years his skillset has broadened to include writing and video work. He currently collaborates with the press as well as with institutions and non-governmental organisations. Collectif Item remains a driving force, continuing to use images to raise the issues of marginalisation, social norms, exclusion, integration, equality and acceptance.
I met these people in France, in Lyon, in the city centre and on the outskirts. These men and women have all found some kind of shelter, which sometimes gives the impression of a degree of stability, but which is actually extremely precarious. Neither did our text messages. He comes to fetch me at the bus stop and we walk and talk the short distance to the place where he sleeps.
