Issue No.22 - International Edition Polo De’Marco Magazine - International Edition | Page 44

1. What inspired you to get into
photography? And what were you
drawn into shooting lions and the
African Wildlife?
I
started photography through sport. I trained myself to cover sports
news, first regional, then national and international. I was born in the
provinces, in the countryside, and I grew up surrounded by nature,
being made aware by my parents of respect for wild life, especially
animal life, but my professional journey brought me to the Paris region,
where are mainstream media.After a while, I started to saturate with
this urban life. I felt the need to reconnect to essential things, especially
the wilderness. It was then that I left for Tanzania. It was in 2002. I enjoyed
myself by starting a personal work in b & w on wildlife against the flow of my
profession as a photojournalist whose evolution, marked and trivialised, no
longer satisfied my thirst for inspiration. What I saw in Africa exceeded all
my dreams and I had only one desire, to prolong this pleasure and continue to
photograph this animal life, free and wild, so beautiful and so precious.