“My camera gives me audacity”

You publish My photos from the ends of the world. We didn’t know you had this talent…

Photography is my way of escaping, of getting away from the hustle and bustle, of refocusing. Despite my job, I like photography more than video. Snapshots tell more and are markers for memory.

What does this book reveal about you?

My taste for travel, discovery and encounters. I never steal photos. My camera gives me the audacity to interact with the people photographed.

Your latest cultural favorite?

Léna Mauger’s journalistic investigation, The evaporated from Japan, which traces the thread of voluntary disappearances, a phenomenon of Japanese society.

The song that makes you happy in the morning?

Together, by Alyocha Schneider and Charlotte Cardin.

Your favorite on the small screen?

Gilles Bouleau, presenter whose work ethic, general knowledge and honesty I never cease to admire.

Your Proust madeleine?

My mother’s endives with ham. And luckily, my wife made them even better.

A guilty pleasure?

Milk chocolate: I could eat it during and outside of meals.

You have three days, a backpack and no car. Where are you going?

I go deeper into the Var hinterland, near Collobrières.

A good plan to reconnect with nature?

Leaving my cell phone aside, which is far from easy for me.

A solidarity initiative that touched you?

The work of the World Vision association with African women, particularly Kenyan women, victims of early marriage and excision.

Pope Leo XIV grants you an audience. What questions are burning on your lips?

How does he experience his transition from anonymity to the position of one of the most well-known, revered and courted men in the world? How does he remain himself in these conditions? How does he manage to maintain his faith and the necessary time of prayer to nourish it?

We offer you an hour of silence. What do you do with it?

I extend it.

For you, Jesus, it is…

A riddle to solve.