Born in Luzy, France in 1946, the Artist got interested in photography early, and was given his first camera, a Kodak Brownie, at the age of ten, but it is only while in college that he learned darkroom techniques and bought his first reflex camera. Working as an oil prospector in Indonesia and New-Guiney in the early 70's, he travelled with a darkroom in a suitcase, a Pentax, and a Bronica. In 1973, he and a friend equiped a VW van as a camper/darkroom, shipped it to New-York and drove all the way to Brazil. Shooting and processing both slide and black and white film, he brought back thousands of pictures of Mexico, Guatemala, Costa-Rica,Panama, Columbia,Equador, Peru,Bolivia, Paraguay, and Brazil. His main focus was on people and architecture.

   He moved to the US in 1974, and settled in Birmingham, Alabama.He exhibited both color and black and white photographs in Birmingham and in New-Orleans,was an artist in residence at the old Lakeview school, and taught some classes at the University. Several trips to Mexico led to a series of colorful images of doors and walls. The focus of most of the black and white work then was found objects and architecture.

   In the early 80's, he taught himself drawing and painting,using his photographs as the source material. Having by 1984 become a full time painter of photorealistic still-lives, he continued shooting slides during trips to Guatemala, Morocco,Italy,India and Burma.

   The purchase of a computer and a digital camera at the end of 1999 revived his original passion for photography.The amazing power of Photoshop allows so much more control than the darkroom, and it is so fast, that he is now producing limited edition prints on an Epson 870, both from a Nikon 990 and older slides, in color and B&W. The latest serie of larger computer montages, called "binarycollages" ,is growing almost daily, and the 13x17 images are printed with the latest Epson 2000P archival printer. Their permanency is estimated to be 200 years.