Portfolio

10 YEARS AFTER, KABUL
After a decade of international presence in Afghanistan, it seems we’ve seen all of Kabul. I feel that the way the media represents a country at war is unfettered, shameless and almost pornographic. I have been working as a freelance photographer for the last 4 years in Afghanistan for several media outlets, but I decided to look for once at the Afghan capital in a different way [...]

PARIS / KABUL
In Paris, hundreds of young Afghans congregate in Villemin park, which has become a strategic arrival point between the Gare de l’Est and Gare du Nord stations. Some are waiting for the train or truck that will take them on the next step of their journey : Great Britain, [...]

LET’S GO TO FARAH
I still keep in mind when our fixer gave us a call a morning at the hotel: “Are you ready to go to Farah?
Hidden under our burqas, accompanied by his wife and children, escorted and housed by police, we leave for Farah. Starts a three days road trip in the Afghan Far West [...]

DEHMAZANG [2007-2010]
2007. Afghanistan is the largest producer of opium in the world, accounting for 90% of worldwide production. Last year, 8 200 tons were produced. Opium represents 50% of the country’s GDP, employs 12% of Afghans and partly contributes to funding for the Taliban and other [...]

KABULI VOTERS / 20.08.2009
On August 20 2009, 17 millions Afghans were asked to go to the polls to elect their President and their provincial representatives. The fear of Taliban attacks, which have particularly hit in recent months and those who directly [...]

HEROIN
In 2007, while reporting for the first time on drug users in Kabul, I took habit to do portraits of them. Soon, that become a kind of “tit for tat”. They let me reporting on their daily life and me, I [...]