Back to the country of monks: beyond the pictures

My Scholarship entry - A 'place' I have visited

Myanmar | Friday, July 5, 2013 | 5 photos

Images are part of my life. As a kid I was always drawing. Then I studied how biological and robotic systems interpret visual data. Working today on smart cars and humanoid robots vision, this high-tech environment could have kept me far from living conditions populations are facing.

But after 9/11, HongKong replaced a trip to NewYork. The cultural gap lighted-up something in me and I bought my first camera to share this experience. This brought me later from crowded cities to deserts, seeing poverty, changes in societies, climate...

Photography became a way to testify but I couldn't give the impact deserved by the subjects. Click came with a REZA exhibit in 2003. This pushed me to go beyond shyness to come closer with my camera, to learn local words to make contact easier with people and to place theirs stories in a general context that I try to appreciate by reading international magazines.

But all this work remains pointless if it can't be shared and I'm still missing fundamental experience to bring it to a professional level. This scholarship with Jason in Greenland, a place focusing attention about climate, will bring me one step higher to join professional photographers.