Bye bye 2011

Happy New Year everybody! I think now is time to tell you about how 2011 has been good to me. This 2011 year was the beginning of me working as a professional photographer. Out of school since july 2010 I had since then met a lot of amazing people and seen amazing things, participated in great projects and I have so many people to be thankful to.

I've met Fabrice Florent, Madmoizelle.com's big boss, who took a chance on me and took me around his acoustic music sessions for the website to do pictures of the artists, ended up filming with him as well. Actually, here is a Best Of our work together during 2011 . I also covered music festivals for them and you know how that went ;).

I've met the Crumb Magazine team at it's beginning: Thomas Carrié and Laurie Cassagne, both of which I loved working with, issue after issue, and how they've been there for me as friends.

I've worked with Billabong Europe two more times this year, filming the summer collection in Ibiza last May (it'll be available soon ;) ) and the winter one in Biarritz in november. It's been such a thrill to be able to follow the team in these amazing places and to work with them several times.

The Paulette Magazine adventure is continuing and this year they've gotten paper versions of the mag!! The first issue had my best friend Leonie Brun on the cover and I did a few shoots in it too. It's great to see how a project fulfills itself thanks to a motivated team and the contributer's energie combined with the growing followers.

I've also had the pleasure to work with the Paris based brand By Zoé and imagery with lovely musicians such as Moziimo, Arthur H, Prem Sé, 4 Guys From The Future, The Popopopops, Cardinale, got dizzy in Miami filming Walter Sobcek's upcoming new music video.

I met the Lomography team and contributed to their website as a LomoAmigo and tested of the super 35mm analog camera they got out this year :).

Small projects with 3PetitsPoints Magazine and Tracemaker decided I could try being a photography director on Armor:

I met adorable photographers agent, Zeynep Erguven, who is now representing me.

The year ended on a bright event in the form of The Young Fashion Photography Picto Prize for which I was the 2011 prize-winner! It's an amazing step forward and I hope 2012 will be as exiting!

Picture by Chloé Bonnard

2011 was also a year of music for me, not only being able to work with musicians as a photographer but getting out my personal music project out and being invited to play it during other peoples gigs! With Bastian Melton we've played at the Scopitone, the Espace B, Bouillon Belge, at the Ferme du Bonheur festival with Moziimo, at the Chacha and a Nikita Party for Paulette Magazine, a HomeSpun concert. I also had the honnor to play with Photo at the Panic Room and openning for Nadeah during one of her Concert Sauvage... Thank you all so much for giving us these opportunities.

(Picture By David Do Van Minh @ Nadeah Concert Sauvage)

Best wishes to all of you and thank you so much for following and supporting me!

Actually now i'm thinking I should've done a more illusrated recap'... :P