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Location | Marolles-en-Hurepoix, France |
Prints issue | LIMITED EDITION 30 prints ONLY |
Shooting date | Novembre 2014 |
Original picture | Digital |
Original picture | Digital |
Formats | Large format |
Era | 2010-2020 |
Colors | Grey |
I was born into a family that brought the first automobiles to market at the beginning of the last century. For as long as I can remember, I have always heard about motorsport at home and automobiles in the broad sense.
My passion for modes of transport on land also led me to develop a passion for boats during the many school holidays that I spent in Brittany. After my military service in the Navy I began learning how to make sails for large racing multihulls and the last 12MJIs in the America's Cup at the end of the 1980s.
Back in the Paris region, I will join the DPPI press agency created by my father in 1962 where I will learn the basics of photography and business during the first 3 years.
Through a combination of circumstances I will create, develop and manage what will become 10 years later the most important structure for marketing boat photos within a photographic press agency.
At the beginning of this century I will restore several old automobiles, including one of the most emblematic single-seaters in French motorsport that had launched Matra Sport in a quest for victories for 10 years.
After this interlude I returned to my job as a photographer to produce subjects on automobile heritage and motorboats.
Marolles-en-Hurepoix near Paris, November 2014, in the "NOVO" garage. I lingered on the dashboard and steering wheel of a Delage 15 S 8 "Grand Prix" from 1927 under restoration.
The DELAGE "Grand Prix" 1500cc and its supercharged 8-cylinder, considered as one of the most effective racing car of the century, won the World Championship "Formula Libre", ancestor of F1 in 1927, with the official driver Robert Benoist.