There wasn’t much snow during the 2010/2011 winter season in Europe, while USA and Canada had continuous breaking records snow dumps. We had to deal with the fact we had no snow and still produce shots. It pushed us, photographers and athletes to be creative. We talked with Tignes skier Flo Bastien of all the [...]
I took this shot during the 2009 Nissan Winter Outdoor Games with 2009 and 2011 Freeride World Champion, chamoniard Aurélien Ducroz. We were looking for a good freeride spot for the film crew, with drops, nice powder landings and backdrops – and good light. Getting nice backdrops is not very hard in Chamonix, as all [...]
I took this shot in august 2008, at SnowParkNZ in amazing New Zealand. I had been sent by the ski brand CoreUPT to bring new skis and take photos of the newly recruited team North American members, Colby James West, TJ Schiller and Gus Kenworthy. We spent all our days at SnowParkNZ at first, the [...]
  I took this shot during the 2009 Nissan Winter Outdoor Games with pilot Hernan Pittoco in Chamonix, France (click to enlarge). I cant remember the name of the pilot that was flying me (I was flying in tandem, as a passenger) and it frustrates me as the picture wouldn?t have been possible without his [...]
A few recent events changed my perception of social media. So far when I redid my website a few yeas ago, I wanted to jump in the social media bandwagon, opened multiple account on the most popular networks like facebook, twitter, flickr, this blog? but ended up hardly not using any. I felt there was [...]
Back in Februrary of this year i’ve been contacted by french magazine Paris Match to shoot a double page spread on the Freeski Project, a collectiv of french freestyle skiers who collected multiple gold medals at the X-Games, the equivalent of the Olympics games for Extrem sports. Here is the making of video we did [...]
The X Games are the equivalent of The Olympic games for Extreme sports, it’s a highly popular event (103 600 people attended), made for TV and thus highly broadcasted worldwide (430 journalists on site, 2000 hours of TV broadcast over 198 countries). From the 12th to the 16th of March i was shooting the European [...]
The X Games are the equivalent of The Olympic games for Extreme sports, this is a highly popular event (103 600 people attended), made for TV and thus highly broadcasted worldwide (430 journalists on site, 2000 hours of TV broadcast over 198 countries). From the 12th to the 16th of March i was shooting the [...]
I’ve been contacted in 2010 by communication agency MNSTR to shoot the new campaign of Tignes resort. The resort wanted to have original, young, sexy, offbeat and powerful key visuals to reflect the values of Tignes, the resort of audacious people. The creative director Raphael Cappodanno came up with great ideas and showed me the sketches [...]
Pffffou… its been a long, slow, painful process to change this site server. But at long last its now back to normal with everything working as it should (thanks to Gab, Nico and PeaudeBanane for the help).
Please do send me an email if you notice a weird behaviour, a broken link or similar…
Not many [...]
Well, it was time to update them… the Portfolios.
I think twice a year is a good rythm, and we werent too happy with the disposition of the previous ones.
Some new photos, and some are now gone…
A tighter selection, a title for each photo, we arranged them as a gallery, looking at how [...]
We were with Brice in Megève last week to shoot the 2010 Vacheron Constantin Snow Golf Cup.
Im stoked to announce my very first photo exposition !
It will take place in Megève next week at the Galerie Guihlem, right in the center of town, from the 25th to the 31th of january. I will be displaying 16 fine art prints, of sizes up to 80×55 centimeters. The talented people of Luminances.net [...]
The American photo images of the year is a big photo contest taking place at the end of each year. This year they introduced a new category, « Extreme », so i thought why not entering. I submitted a picture we did with Guerlain Chicherit frontflipping a crevasse on the Tignes glacier in France.
The results are [...]
At the end of October, the riders and staff of CoreUPT.com gathered together in Tignes for a start of the season team Building. We shot a short movie with SVP Productions about next year line of ski called Full of Colors. The movie should be online soon, but meanwhile you can check the black and [...]
Wow… its already the last month of the year. Its been flying once again…
In case you’re looking for a cool gift for your family, friends or yourself, why not getting a fine quality print from our Portfolios pictures ? Its Christmas soon, and we’re happy to give you a special limited reduction coupon of [...]
It all started 3 weeks ago with a phone call from Guerlain Chicherit …
G:“Hi man, what are you planning for next week?â€Â
Me:“Nothing sure, but I will probably be in Tignes, I have to fix things in my flat before the winter seasonâ€Â
G:“Ok, you’re right, fix you apartment†and he hang up…
I’ve known Guerlain for [...]
Welcome on the first post of our new blog…
So many NEW things :
- a new organisation, we’re 2 now… Brice joined me in the adventure, and will deal with almost everything, from producing, being a 2nd photographer, assisting, project managing, creative thoughts, web marketing, writings, logistic plannings… he will post on the blog and various [...]
We decided a while ago with Brice to now shoot behind the scene videos of shoot we’re at.
Well it definitely takes sometimes to get something worthy, its not always easy to shoot it without loosing attention to your main photoshoot, and it sure takes skills to do a nice edit… we’re still in the [...]