A MOMENT SUSPENDED IN TIME - COLLECTOR

They enter the stage, pushing aside the curtains of celebrity with one hand, and suddenly, in front of them, thousands of stares impatient for the ceremony to begin... They face the audience and immediately a mask covers their face, like a second skin. And yet the mask sometimes cracks. A sudden shyness, a moment of withdrawal, doubt or rage. A fleeting, sincere self-reflection, like a word exchanged between the human being and his double. Then the human being exposes himself and transcends the character...

This series of photos stems from this idea, or more precisely from this quest: to catch in the act, in the middle of a show of collective blindness or behind the scenes, this fragile in-between, this suspended moment when the artist reveals himself as he is and not as we think we see him.

The Photographer:
On stage, on tour, in the studio, backstage for some fifteen years.
Over the past 15 years, he has met many musicians, crossed France and Belgium, landed in London and Montreal, gone to bed in a tour bus in Switzerland only to wake up in Germany, traveled over 100.000 km, to take photos with Björk in her bathrobe in her dressing room, to eat between The Hives and Disclosure, to go quad biking with Slipknot, to be invited to the world's biggest Apple store in London to give a talk, to create the last 9 album covers for Mass Hysteria, Lofofora's "Monstre ordinaire",Olivia Ruiz's Jazz album, the first Bukowski, shoot Suicidal Tendencies or Ghost in toilets, have drinks while watching Lemmy play pinball, attend almost 700 concerts, be the official photographer at major festivals, test the alcohol in the dressing rooms at Eurocks, Hellfest, Sonisphere, Heavy Montreal, Main Square, Garorock, in tiny or very large venues, take end-of-concert photos with 50.000 people raising their arms, drinking a few semi-trailers of beer, staying up too late and waking up too early, going through this frenzy to capture a few moments.