Mathieu Amalric for France-Amerique

The voice of the homeland is out and take you this month in the head of a James Bond’s bad guy!

PICK UP AN ISSUE!!!!  You cheapoz*

* So you can read the excellent paper of my homeboy and beloved editor-in-chief Jean-Cosme Delaloye which is the closest thing to french gonzo journalism i read recently.

* So I can I ask him for a consequent raise for the next issue’s cover I just shot on friday with ???  With??? …. sssssshhhhhhh it’s a secret

Jahdan Blakkamoore/ Musician for Spex magazine

Kings of Convenience for Death+taxes magazine

Death+taxes is out, pick up an issue to see the photographs on nice paper stock and my hairy face on the contributor’s page.

Now, to talk a little about the pictures, let’s just say band photography is fun and frustrating at the same time: You get there willing to be William Claxton or James Marshall chillin’ and jammin’, but this industry is now worldwide and that time is over. Now, you find yourself in front of two jetlaged norvegians lads, who came out of the plane 30 minutes before the shoot, who barely know anyway in which country they are, and a publicist who tells you you only got 11 minutes.

Just between us, have you guys noticed that only car services and PR people are that precise with time?  I am writing this of course with all the respect due to these professions….. My wife beeing a publicist herself…

Anyhow, it could sound like a disaster waiting to happen without the elegance and kindness of the Kings, who played me a song in a stairwell, even accepted to climb up on the roof and had the decency to only call me annoying in Norwegian. Thanks guys!

Last week, I posted on here a portrait of me taken by  Erlend, I thought I ‘d show you the reverse shot.

Fabrice Luchini, Comedian for France-Amerique

The article by the excellent Gaetan Mathieu is here,  check it out.

I don’t usually shoot press conferences or at least when I do, I don’t usually show the pictures.

But Fabrice Luchini is an exception, and I must say that standing next to him on Park Avenue while he is quoting the arrival in New York from LF Celine will remain in my memory for a while.

I leave you guys with these amazing words, in french, because some things should not be translated et parce que cela me plait.

“Figurez-vous qu’elle était debout leur ville, absolument droite. New York c’est une ville debout.”

P.S: Big up to my colleagues at the AFP and French Morning, the lunch was fun!

Cecilia Attias for France-Amerique

Thomas Phillipon, economist for France-Amerique

Renaud Dutreil,Chairman of LVMH Inc for France Amerique

Claude Grunitzky, journalist & founder of Trace magazine for France-Amerique

New Project/ Funeral homes

I just started shooting a new story about funeral homes as a part of larger project about human environments.

Jean-Georges for France-Amerique

Hip! Hip! Hip! EDITORIAL!!!!

Long time, no serious post!!! Due to the nature of the jobs I did, corporate ones mainly that don’t really belong here.

But the french sense of solidarity is no legend, as I started a very exciting collaboration with my new friends at France-Amerique, the voice of the motherland in the US (Merci Jean-Cosme!), shooting one of our most  well-know chef

The excellent Jean-Georges who cooked us a 8-course meal that will remain one of the greatest esthetic choc of my life and one of the best moment of my short carreer.