I am Yvan. I have been taking photographs for fifteen years. I learned light on the French Riviera, where it is harsh at noon and soft at the end of the day. On skin, it reveals a curve, a breath, a moment of ease: sometimes a portrait, sometimes boudoir, sometimes a nude. All of it serves one idea: celebrating the Female body.
The sessions I enjoy most are the improvised ones. My best photographs were born from a simple idea, shared with the model. We look at each other, we say “Come on, let’s do it!”, and off we go, without overthinking it. The rest is a matter of trust, light and commitment.
I love the opposite just as much: highly worked images that call for a great deal of preparation. The idea is sketched out in advance; the place, the light, the outfit and every detail are settled before the first frame. After all that, pressing the shutter is the easiest part: in a single instant, all that work becomes a photograph. The two feed each other. One keeps the energy of the moment, the other gives an image wanted down to the last detail.
The same goes for the equipment. A prepared image may call for a professional digital camera and studio lights; an improvised one is often happier with a simple film camera. Everything I use has the same job: to capture the moment, the story and the emotion.
Right now I am working on a series called “Newspaper”. It brings feminine beauty together with the incongruous: women reading newspapers in a completely incongruous outfit, and sometimes in a setting that is just as incongruous. I like that gap. It makes you look twice.
Another series is taking shape, “Light on Skin”. It goes back to the beginning: nothing but light and skin, with no set, no story, no distraction. The first images will join the galleries as they are made.
On 17 and 18 October 2026 my Camargue series, “D’eau et de galops”, took part in FestiFoto, the competition held by the Club photo de Saint-Cézaire-sur-Siagne. The horses and their foal crossing the marsh were the professional jury’s favourite, and the horses galloping through the sea came third in the public vote. Both photographs are in the Travel gallery.
I live and work in Nice. The galleries show part of this work, and the FAQ explains how a session unfolds. I also share the way I work on YouTube.
If you have an idea, even a simple one, and you would like us to make it happen together, the contact page is where it starts.
Yvan