About me
My work focuses on exploring human connection and celebrating cultural diversity, throughout the sense of my camera, and words.
I find my greatest joy in stepping into unknown worlds to me: understanding life through someone else eyes, stories, and experiences..
From an early age, I traveled with my family, mostly across Europe and North Africa. Its at the age of nineteen that I left for the first time the Mediterranean shores where I was born.
I suddenly realized how small my knowledge of the world was, and how many different worlds our earth holds, while traveling through this country so important to me .. India.
I spent a few years studying at university, and when I finally graduated with my master’s degree in energy, I took a one-way ticket to Latin America, leaving my home country, France, for what would become a two-year journey.
I slowly discovered seventeen countries, traveling the continent from the wild landscapes of Patagonia in the south to the beautiful land of Mexico in the north.
Along the way, I learned to travel slowly, to observe, adapt, immerse myself, developing a fascination for new ways of living and thinking. I began to notice how faces, languages, and customs changed as I moved, awakening a profound curiosity in exploring different cultures.
Over the years, my curiosity deepened. I started to seek out lesser-known places : those that, from a Western perspective, often remain misunderstood. My first trip to Lebanon in 2021 opened the doors to this particular region of the world, the Middle East.
In 2023, my life took a new direction. I decided to travel alone, to listen more deeply and to connect with people and cultures that are often misjudged. I chose Asia, a continent so rich and complex, as the starting point of this path. It was the beginning of a new two-year adventure.
I believed I was setting out on my own, yet I soon discovered the opposite. Never before had I formed such powerful bonds with strangers who became true friends and people who opened their homes and hearts, and who quickly became my family on the road.
Pakistan was the first chapter of that exploration, and it has a special place in my heart. It was there I understood how wrong our perceptions can be, when all I encountered was humanity, generosity, and kindness.
The Middle East became a place I would return to again and again, because once you step into this region, a piece of your heart stays there forever. Despite everything this region has been through, and still have too, I found some of the warmest, generous, and most welcoming souls I have ever met.
A few years later, driven by the desire to change the world’s perception of this region, I created an online community of travelers, bringing together thousands of people to make journeys there easier. I truly believe that as this region becomes more accessible, people’s perceptions will slowly shift, and the false narratives will fade.
I immersed myself in places marked by war and hardship : Afghanistan, Iran, Kurdistan, Iraq, and Syria.
The resilience and endless kindness and resilience of their people changed me profoundly, in ways I am still processing to this day: those encounters left traces that continue to shape how I see the world.
Living among the Nenets of Siberia, and later with the Tsaatan in Mongolia, two nomadic tribes, even for a very short period of time, has opened my world a little more each time.
A way of life so far from my own, lived in harmony with nature and the rhythm of the seasons, in its purest and simplest form, untouched by the rush of time or the pursuit of endless goals.
During those two years wandering across much of the Asian continent, I discovered the true power of photography : a tool to share stories, celebrate diversity, and connect with people.
As time goes on and my creative vision evolves, I find myself increasingly drawn to videography and storytelling. In the future, you’ll see more of my work take shape through documentaries and written stories, always place local people, and what they have to share with us , at the very heart of my work.
Travel keeps reshaping me: my thoughts, values, and ways of seeing the world evolve with every encounter. I’ve learned that no single truth exists : what is sacred in one culture may not be in another. The world is vast and its sensitivities infinitely varied. We must keep cultivating tolerance and expanding our understanding of what it means to be human.
As a result of all those years on the road, traveling on my own, I came up with an idea: to create journeys for focusing on human connection and cultures often overlooked or misunderstood, for people sharing the same vision of traveling as I do.
This is how walkbeside.co was born.