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I'm a French-American singer, writer, filmmaker, and photographer living and working between the UK and the United States.

After my stage touring was cancelled in 2020, I picked up a camera to document my seaside town of Ramsgate, Kent through two winter lockdowns. The daily practice culminated in 'Hands, Faces, Ramsgate: The Year Christmas was Cancelled', a vast installation in the industrial port of Ramsgate.

I owe my appreciation of the whimsical in street scenes to American photographer Garry Winogrand. My images are sometimes dark, often quirky, and always very human.

Through collaborations with contemporary dance choreographers and my own experience of live performance, I developed a sense of the drama of bodies moving through space and light.

Trained and working professionally as a documentary filmmaker, I learned the transformative power of images and stories about, for, and with communities.

A year ago, I started to make photographs. I don't see how I could stop now. This first project of lockdown street photography in a small English town, now complete, will be followed by a more ambitious UK-wide project on nationalisms.

I was born in France, spent three decades in the American West from my teen years. I now live and work between Ramsgate and Glasgow, UK, and Tucson, Arizona.

SELECTION OF RELEVANT WORKS :

February 1 - March 6, 2022 : Solo photo exhibition - 'The Year Christmas Was Cancelled: photographies de rue à Ramsgate, Kent pendant l'hiver 2020; - Louxor Cinéma, Paris, France.

Decembre 2021 : Solo photo exhibition - 'Ramsgate, England: The Year Christmas Was Cancelled' - Location tbc (fence outdoor guerrilla-style) Tucson, Arizona, USA

November 2021 : Group exhibition - Laurent Delaye Gallery, Ramsgate, UK

27 August/27 Octobre 2021 : Large-scale outdoor photo installation - 'Hands, Faces, Ramsgate: The Year Christmas Was Cancelled' - Ramsgate Port, UK

2019 : 'Not Me' - debut memoir and stage adaptation.

2015 : 'City Series 4: Cologne Vier Takes' - live album with Yan Péchin and Allyson Ezell.

2013 : 'Close Your Eyes and Add a Touch of Nothing' - dramaturg/videast for Ami Garmon and Frank Willens, Tanz im August festival, Berlin.

2010 : Live shows at Black Rabbit music festival, Beijing and Shanghai, China, MOMA New York, in Australia, New Zealand, the States, and Europe. Walking tour (with donkey) of the Pyrén...

25.10.2021 - EXHIBITION NEWS : So excited to announce a solo exhibition in Paris at Louxor Cinéma's Salon in Montmartre from February 1st to March 6th. Opening reception on Tuesday, February 8th. Gallery is free, no ticket required, accessible 14h-21h every day of the week.

15.10.2021 - EXHIBITION NEWS : 'Doris' from 2021 series 'Hands, Faces, Ramsgate: The Year Christmas Was Cancelled' has been selected by Turner Contemporary in Margate, UK for their winter 2021 exhibition!