Today, I visited Nicholas Mir Chaikin (the Spill design agency Director) at his office. We talked about the internet evolution and different ways to mix photography and video (Paris)

Walking silhouette with dead leaf (Paris)

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Soon, I will be offering a new experience on Portrait Lab.

I am going to ask various artists I like to post several portraits of their selection. The only obligation will be that the portraits are taken on the very same day they are being posted.

My first guest will be Pablo Guerra,  a Spanish photographer based in Buenos Aires, whose sensitivity I like. We had dinner last summer in Paris and of course discussed about portrait. We also mentioned this one week contribution which will be started on December the 5th.

I will, of course, continue to produce my own daily portrait.

Translated from French by Adélaïde Gomes

Elliott Roy, my father, at work. I visited him today and gave him some fresh news from our family members living in Haïti (Paris)

As an actress, Maelle Genet can personify different kind of women in a short time. In front of my camera, after being reserved, she became funny and attractive. I really enjoyed shooting her (Paris)

This evening, Julie and I went to have dinner at Frédéric Grossi and François Faurie's place. François is a great cook and one of the coolest persons I know. We enjoyed delicious food and had a great discussion about the future of Europe (among other funnier subjects) (Paris)

After spending too much time retouching pictures on my computer, I went out for a walk and photographed that mysterious old lady sleeping in the winter sun (Paris)

I don't know anything about this lady, probably on her way home, in the bus that drives me from my accountant's place to mine. I only know her mood seems like mine (Paris)

In the metro, back from the lab with my kid. And a dreamlike picture from my Haïti travel (Paris)

I lost my Velib card (a pass to rent the Paris city bicycles) last Friday. I received a phone call this week-end from Bruno Mayrargue, the bookseller and gallerist of Yvon Lambert's Bookshop, who told me he found it. I visited him this afternoon and thanked him for his kindness (Paris)

Stéphane Mangin is a passionate man. He collects and sells african art. He can comment, like nobody else, the beauty of a mask he loves. I visited him in his shop near Montparnasse and had a great time talking to him (Paris)

Ludovic Dupont is my neighbour and friend. He works for French television. He loves cinema and photography and recently bought me a selfportrait. We meet quite often at the park with our kids and wives. Julie was lovely today. They were sitting on the same bench (Paris)

I met Mehdi Chalmers at a presentation of my Haïti workshop in Saint-Denis. He's Haitian and studies philosophy in Paris. We had a talk about poetry (Saint-Denis)

After a whole day working on a casting selection for an advertising campain in South Africa, I went to Apartamento magazine's launch and Nathalie Du Pasquier's beautiful drawings exhibition at the Yvon Lambert's bookshop/gallery. I met Marco Velardi, Nacho Alegre and photographed the strong and clever eyes of Yorgo Tloupas (Intersection magazine's publisher) (Paris)

John Jefferson Selve during the mythical French singer Christophe's photo shoot for the next issue of the erotic Parisian magazine Edwarda (Paris)

Photo: David Hamilton

It's always a great pleasure to chat with my friend Dacha Appolonova (Paris)

No need to say Jean-Marc Sainclair is nice. Just have a look at his face... He is a filmmaker and sometimes works as a model for Maison Martin Margiela. After today's look book shoot, we talked about travelling, how lucky we both are to do our jobs, and voodoo (Paris)

Ugo Mangin is one of Soraya's sons and a young man full of life and energy. I ran into him this afternoon after an advertising meeting. He's just starting a career as a filmmaker (Paris)

Computer screen light selfportrait, and street anti-portrait (Paris)

Jonas, this afternoon, in front of the interesting NoFound PhotoFair location. The place looks more like Berlin or London than the center of Paris (Paris)

Soraya Mangin is sweet, and brings a touch to everything. Her house looks like a cabinet de curiosité. I photographed her in her garden, between hippopotamus skulls, old woodcuts and autumn leafs (Paris)

When I met Soumaila Dansoko, he was just out of the Offprint independant book publishers fair. I asked him: "What do you do for living?" He answered sadly "nothing" (Paris)

I don't know why, but I've always liked Adeline Juge. I don't know her well, but she's got something that moves me (Paris)

Tout visage est une fête, un panneau d'indication, vers le grand bal masqué de la planète.

Every face is a celebration, a road sign leading towards the great global masquerade ball.

James Noël 
Translation Adélaïde Gomes

Horseshoe crab mask I bought a few months ago. Between african fetish and science fiction warrior (Paris)

My sister in law Caroline during my brother Axel's birthday dinner. She cooked a delicious african food (Paris)

Jonas just out of his bath, on a lazy Sunday editing some pictures for a new project (Paris)

The haïtian musician and creole teacher Reynold Henrys at the opening of Eddy Saint-Martin painting exhibition at Oroyo shop in Montmartre (Paris)

A drink with my pretty neighbour and translator Adelaide Gomes and her son Zacharie (Paris)

My brother Axel at work this morning. He's a director in an advertising company. He told me he was exhausted and about to take holidays (Paris)

Jonas drawing in the melancholic autumn light of Paris. He seems a bit taller than when I left (France)

Back home. And so happy to see Julie after three weeks working in Haïti (Paris)