Photography, video and web design for research and industry.
A studio in Farmington, Connecticut, working with laboratories, manufacturers and institutions.
How the work happens
I run a one-person studio in Farmington, and most of the work happens somewhere else. Laboratories, production floors, historic building sites. I go there, because what I photograph cannot be carried into a studio and lit at leisure.
That means working around people who have twenty minutes between experiments, and around machines that will not stop for a photograph. It also means arriving with a plan, and leaving with what was agreed.
Web design follows a different logic. A site is built and maintained from here, so those clients are spread wider. I worked in France, moved to Long Island in 2008, and brought the studio to Connecticut in 2016.
One studio for the whole chain
A photographer subcontracts the website. A web agency subcontracts the shoot. In both cases you brief twice, arbitrate between two suppliers, and end up with images that were never made for the page they sit on.
Here the photographs are taken for the site they will live in. I know the crop before the shutter, the file weight before the upload, the print bleed before the layout. When a leaflet, a report and a homepage come out of the same session, they hold together, because nobody had to make them match afterwards.
Seven years with L’Atelier Gris Mousse show what that looks like: photography, video, printed material and creative direction from one place.
Selected work
Portraits, laboratory environments and annual report photography for a genomics research institute, from the bench to the printed page, on site and on their schedule.
A personal portrait series that the laboratory adopted, then extended to the Nobel and Lasker laureates invited to its symposiums. Some of the prints hang on its walls.
A gallery of photographs that became a searchable database, filtered by composition and classification, as the collection grew from a hundred specimens toward four hundred.
Seven years of visual identity for an interior design studio: a dining room staged on a beach, a living room set up in a working stable, and the printed material that followed.
I asked to photograph the vineyards for myself. The estate looked at my work and commissioned the job instead, then asked me back for the harvest in Burgundy.
Photography and video for the dancewear brand supplying the Paris Opera Ballet School, shot in its studios with its students, plus a 200-page catalog and the trade show material.
Some of the people I work with
Research institutes, manufacturers, wine estates, dance companies. The range is wider than most studios show, and it is deliberate: a portrait session in a laboratory and a shoot in a Burgundy cellar call for the same thing, which is knowing how to work fast in a place you do not control.
Among them: one of the five leading estates in Burgundy, whose grands crus go mostly to collectors abroad, and a wine group shipping twelve million bottles a year.
What my clients say
Start a project
Tell me what you need to show, and where it needs to appear. You get a plan, a timeline and a price.