Just before a meeting Place de Clichy. That man reminds me of Jonas Mekas (Paris)

Shadow (Paris)

Light source (Paris)

Walk in the woods with Julie, Jonas and Diango (Vincennes)

In the Parisian Metro

Gabrielle Maudet (Amandine's mother) asked me if I could photograph her paintings. Do they represent ghosts? I asked. Don't say that, she answered, people are superstitious. I wonder how the 7 years she spent in Haïti influenced her art... (Paris)

My dear Magalie celebrated her birthday in a small Brazilian restaurant in Montmartre. She was lovely and seductive. We feel so close from each other we use to say we probably met before in another life (Paris)

Vision of Roma (Paris)

CHANGE

21/12/2012 - THE MAGIC

“Portrait Lab”, my « one portrait a day for one year » project, has come to an end the 2nd of July 2012.

Since then, I have posted pictures to keep this blog alive. But today is the beginning of a new one-year-long project.

According to the Mayan calendar, the 21/12/2012 marks the end of a cycle for humanity, as well as the beginning of a new era, that is said to be chaotic, dangerous, but spiritually intense.

Nobody can say exactly what, but something strong is happening. Many of us already feel it.

I have myself experienced deep changes in my life this year, which have widened my consciousness and offered a new dimension to my creativity.

The main themes this project, entitled “THE MAGIC”, will deal with are :
photography as a medium, love, chaos, spiritual community and struggling for a different way of living.

Let’s keep connected.

The talented Haitian painter Sebastien Jean during his exhibition at Le Musee du Montparnasse. And the great French photographer Antoine D'agata editing his coming show at Le Bal (Paris)

Today I went to the M/M Paris studio to get some copies of the new issue of Man About Town magazine. The super talented French creative duo commissioned me, a few weeks ago, to shoot a portrait series representing different major fashion designers partners (Paris)

Selfportrait and trees (Paris)

Amandine told me about a screenplay she's working on. Its title is "Amandine pleure" (Paris)

Still life (Paris)

Visions (Paris)

Today I had lunch in a cool pub with Tom Watt, the creative director of Art Review magazine, and also met different photographer's agents in Northern London

Julie knows much more about herself than she did 5 days ago, what makes her happy and beautiful (Paris)

Tonight, after a photo shoot, I went to the Susumu Mukai's exhibition opening at 12Mail / Red Bull space (Paris)

Selfportrait at a location finding for a coming advertising shoot (Paris)

The New York based Art Director Jeff Burch is in Paris for a few days. We had dinner tonight, at Jeff Rian's place in Montmartre, homemade pizzas and tasty wine with wifes, kids and cats (Paris)

In the bus back from the Haitian poet James Noel's new edition (Intranqu'îllités) launch at Agnes B gallery (Paris)

GUEST

Eddy Saint-Martin's drawing number seven
THANK YOU SO MUCH, EDDY!

My brother Axel at the hospital for a knee surgery (Paris)

GUEST

Eddy Saint-Martin's drawing number six

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Eddy Saint-Martin's drawing number five

Natacha Giafferi-Dombre is an ethnologist and galerist. We had a meeting and talk about magic art and the book she wrote about the race perception in Haïti (Paris)

The beautiful Amandine during her mother's paintings exhibition (Paris)

GUEST

Eddy Saint-Martin's drawing number four

Automn walk at the park with family (Paris)

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Eddy Saint-Martin's drawing number Three

Julie smiling while talking to me. The woman I love (Paris)

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Eddy Saint-Martin's drawing number two

Bianca is a lovely and truly fascinating woman. She's British and works as a photographer's agent for a Paris based international agency. We had dinner this evening to talk about work, but finally had an intense exchange about our lives. I felt like being deeply connected to her (Paris)

GUEST

Eddy Saint-Martin's drawing number one (Paris)

NEW GUEST

GUEST
 

For 1 week from Thursday the 15th of November  to Wednesday the 21th, I will have the pleasure to host my friend the Franco Haitian painter Eddy Saint-Martin on this blog. He will be expressing his personal vision of portrait through drawings.
Welcome Eddy and thanks in advance for sharing with me.

This evening I went to the major Haitian artist (and chaos master) Mario Benjamin's painting exhibition at La Revue Noire's location (Paris)

The weather has been so bad in Paris today, I felt like posting this portrait of me shot by Julie last summer (Ibiza)

My friend Danielle visited me this afternoon. We had a talk about vulnerability and voodoo, among many other subjects... (Paris)