Photographer and filmmaker, from the Amazon canopy to the deep blue.
Blue-and-yellow macaws, Ara ararauna
DescendI photograph and film life where it hides: high in the trees, close to the ground, beneath the surface of the sea.
I first came to El Chino in 2017 and have returned several times since: a year on site in all, welcomed by the community as one of their own. It is the last village on the Tahuayo River, in Peru, before the Tamshiyacu-Tahuayo Reserve, one of the most species-rich places on the planet.
No one knows the forest better than the people who live in it. They are the ones who taught me how to look at it.
4°18′ S · 73°13′ WSee the way to El Chino
In late 2024, with my friends from El Chino, we set out on an expedition in search of the red uakari, one of the rarest monkeys in the world, with a single goal: to bring back a photograph of it. Along the way, the villagers talk about their forest and what threatens it: deforestation, wildlife trafficking, a warming climate.
In post-production. Sound editing, mixing and colour grading under way.
The heron scene, frame by frame
With Aventures Amazonie, I take small groups into the Tamshiyacu-Tahuayo Reserve: 420,000 hectares of forest, more than 500 bird species, six participants at most. The people of El Chino are our guides. We watch, we photograph, and each group adds to the reserve’s living atlas.
Every year, the Tahuayo rises by more than fifteen metres. For months, the forest lives under water.
Below the surface, I photograph on a single breath.
In Thailand, the Philippines and the Red Sea, freediving and on scuba. From macro to large schools.
Based in Dahab, on the Red Sea, I photograph freedivers in training, on courses and in competition: the descent along the line, the turn, the ascent. You leave with images of your dives, to improve, for your partners or for yourself.
