PEOPLE

I picked up a camera for the first time when my eldest daughter was born, in 1994. Film, silver halide, the cost of developing - none of that encourages you to go on a shutter-clicking spree. Very few good photos remain from that time. In photography as in life, experience matters more than raw talent. But I have never put my camera down since. I have photographed the people who have crossed my path - though I am unable to do street photography. In the late 1990s, in Sidi Bou Saïd, Tunisia, I asked an elderly man of stunning beauty if I could photograph him. A few weeks later, while developing the film, I learned he had passed away. So I photograph my loved ones. And the students I have accompanied for more than ten years in their creative and audiovisual projects - they have given me as much as I have given them. Many of them are here in this portfolio, and I thank them for it. Photographing or filming your ceremony comes down to the same thing: catching a smile, a look, a laugh, a hand reaching out. Moments that pass from one generation to the next.