From Paris —the City of Light— I travel the world trying to get away from modernity and its associated light pollution to live out how ancient civilizations before us gazed at the night sky.

Using both digital and analog photography, I study the process of imaging time and space, playing with light and shadow while retaining structure. I don’t feel bound to what the mind sees. I deeply believe reality hides many doors that ought to be opened gradually to really start seeing our universe unfold.

Fascinated by the stars early on, I furthered my apprenticeship in Vermont, USA, where a century-old guild of astronomers teaches apprentices how to carve and polish telescope mirrors by hand. After three rigorous years I mastered my first telescope optic and started working to capture the distant light of our galaxy. Returning to working with traditional film allows me to stay true to the physicality of transmuting reflected star-light back to matter.

Close by the mythical Very Large Array radio telescopes, I am currently building an observatory for artists and astronomers alike to come work and express their vision under the truly dark skies of New Mexico.