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| Location | Tours, France |
| Prints issue | LIMITED EDITION 30 prints ONLY |
| Shooting date | 6 mai 2016 |
| Original picture | Digital |
| Original picture | Digital |
| Formats | Large format |
| Era | 2010-2020 |
| Colors | Red |
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.
I shot these photos of the Lamborghini Miura in the context of its fiftieth anniversary and the centenary of the birth of Ferruccio Lamborghini.
Highly sought after today by collectors for its body and its technical design (V12 rear transverse engine), the Miura did not enjoy the same side of love at the time.
The design of this car, built between 1965 and 66 by BERTONE, dates from a time when two designers have crossed, which has installed doubt on his paternity.
Giorgetto Giugiaro left Bertone just when Ferruccio Lamborghini has ordered the body of this car. But that's Marcello Gandini who then designed the Miura at the famous Italian workshop.
To resume the thread of history, we have used a major witness in the person of Piero Stroppa who had joined BERTONE very young and worked there at the time when the two designers have crossed. He confirmed that Gandini was indeed the author of the Miura.
But Giugiaro's family still claimed not so long ago the trend that made the great lines of the Miura and when you look closely, it is possible that Giugiaro had influenced its design through its previous work that he had left in his offices at Bertone ...
