All the photographies offered are original works, numbered, certified and printed in a total of 30 copies.
Only Exhibition Fine Art Prints quality made by the Picto Laboratory, the world reference for Professional Photographers.
Each Fine Art Print is accompanied by its Certificate of Authenticity.
A purchase invoice is available for each order in your Customer Area.
Whether it is framed or not, the Fine Art Print is delivered to your home or your office via Colissimo. It is delivered by hand against signature.
A first selection of 177 photographies divided into 11 Series was made for the launch of the site.
– 5 Black and White Series: Kyûdô, Glances, Waves, Instants, Breaches.
– 6 Colour Series: Still, Flowers, Waves, Thorns, Suns, Flowers.
New series will soon be proposed to satisfy your tastes and meet your expectations.
To be considered as a work of Art, a photography must be Original and printed at maximum 30 copies.
All the prints offered here meet the criteria set out to enable you to benefit from advantageous tax conditions.
If you are acting on behalf of a company, it is possible to deduct the full amount of the acquisition of a work of Art. The French General Tax Code (article 238 bis AB – Law n° 2005-1720 of 30 December 2005 – article 70 JORF 31 December 2005) offers a Total Tax Exemption (20% per year for 5 years) to French companies that purchase works of Art from a living artist without an intermediary.
If you are a private individual, bear in mind that works of Art are not included in your taxable assets.
Moreover, the capital gains realised after the sale may also be tax-free under certain conditions.
For more information, see services-public.fr
Fine Art Prints can be ordered in 4 different sizes :
26 cm × 40 cm
40 cm × 60 cm
60 cm × 90 cm
80 cm × 120 cm
The size of the print has an influence on the price.
Special sizes can be considered.
Your request can be made via the Contact section of the menu.
All the Fine Art Prints I offer are exclusively made with Premium Papers, branded Canson or Hahnemühle :
Canson – Prestige Baryta 340 g
Canson – Platinum Fibre Infinity – 310 g
Canson – Watercolour – 310 gsm
Canson – Museum – 315 gsm
Hahnemühle – Baryta – 315 g
Thanks to the precious advice of Picto‘s experts and according to the desired rendering, the choices were made for each photography.
Usually, photographies fade quickly. The red colours are the most affected and in less than ten years, they start to disappear while the whites on their side turn yellow.
Thanks to their composition, thickness and grammage of over 300 g/m2, the papers selected offer a perfect rendering with a fine grain and a delicate, semi-matt appearance.
In addition to the reproduction of all the nuances, these Premium papers have an exceptional lifespan as they are guaranteed unalterable for over a century.
For buyers who wish to receive prints ready to be hung, perfectly adapted to their wishes and constraints, a top-of-the-range service is offered at the time of finalizing the basket. If the “Picto Advice and Quote” button is ticked, an expert from the Picto Laboratory will contact you by telephone to discuss your expectations regarding the desired framing and finishing.
This personalized assistance aims to offer a perfect aesthetic, technical and budgetary match with optimal quality at all levels. This premium approach, normally reserved for Galleries and Museums, has been made possible thanks to an exceptional partnership with the Picto Laboratory .
To help you choose the ideal frame among all the possibilities and options that will be proposed to you by Picto experts, I invite you to discover the Premium frames that I have pre-selected, from the classic Fine Art Frame to the Floating Frame, including the traditional or with Plexiglassing American Crate.
The same price scale has been applied to all the photographies offered (Colour and BW) in order to better understand and satisfy your expectations.
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| 26 cm × 40 cm | 350 € HT |
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| 40 cm × 60 cm | 550 € HT |
| 60 cm × 90 cm | 750 € HT |
| 80 cm × 120 cm | 950 € HT |
For customised Fine Art Prints, please contact me using the Contact form to obtain a quote.
Peace of mind is essential to ensure the quality of a relationship. Therefore, for your peace of mind, all transactions are carried out and secured thanks to the Stripe system whose reliability is internationally recognised.
To pay for your purchases, simple and detailed instructions are provided at each stage, depending on the payment method chosen.
No payment information is stored on the site. Your payment is made entirely through the secure gateways Stripe or Paypal.
Your Fine Art Prints will be produced individually by a Picto‘s professional printer and sent by the Picto Laboratory within two weeks of validation of your order. Please allow an extra week for framed prints and a longer delivery time in August and December.
The packaging used for transport is also of premium quality to guarantee smooth deliveries.
You will be able to trace your parcels during their journey thanks to a tracking number that will be communicated to you.
Each parcel is handed over to its recipient against signature.
Delivery addresses may be different from the billing address.
Only the Certificate of Authenticity is attached to the shipment.
Your purchase invoice will remain available in your Customer Area.
Shipping costs for unframed prints are free.
Shipping costs for framed prints will be charged extra by Picto‘s framing service depending on the size, weight and destination chosen.
With a clear desire to guarantee premium quality at the best conditions, the choice to collaborate with renowned experts was naturally made.
To be able to offer top-of-the-range Fine Art Prints and Framing, the Picto Laboratory , an international reference for professional photographers, was the obvious choice.
With offices in Paris, New York, Milan and Ho Chi Minh, Picto is the only one able to offer the desired Premium level and to guarantee it without hesitation. This is demonstrated by the personalised support offered for framing and finishing, as this quality of service is normally reserved exclusively for Galleries and Museums. This approach is made possible thanks to the support of Philippe Gassmann, Picto‘s CEO and grandson of the founder, the involvement of Denis, Production Manager, Sandra, Project Manager and Nathalie from the Professional Customer Service Department.
It would be inappropriate not to warmly thank Alaric Baraou (Paris), without whom this site could not have been created. The contribution of this talented developer was essential to meet the needs (front and back office) in order to offer a functional and totally secure site.
Sincere thanks also to those who patiently optimised each of the proposed photographies, Swannie Georgeat and Karine Dupureur.
This work was just as meticulous and fastidious as that carried out by Bruno Travi of Everglades to digitalise all the negatives, some of which were over half a century old. The expertise of Pascal Colnel, Artistic Director of The Big Yellow Dog, was also very useful. We must also mention the quality of the advice given by Marie Christine Lampert of L3Conseils and finally underline the importance of the unfailing help given by Gilles, Simone, Madé, Jojo, Pape Malick, Antoine, Eric, Franck, Leroy, and Seb.
I would like to express my sincere thanks to each of them.
My first contact with photographyAt the age of 9, for 5 French francs, I got my first camera (100% plastic) and a 12 exposure black and white film.
In July 1969, when Neil Armstrong put his first foot on the moon, I took my first two photographies, my neighbour, Claude and the battleship Jean Bart. They were the starting point of an experience that is still not completed today.
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My neighbour, Claude and his cousin |
The battleship Jean Bart |
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When I was a teenager, I bought a Canon FTb-QL, my first 24 x 36 reflex camera, and soon after, I was immersed in the photo lab, the red light, the enlarger, the three trays, the acid fumes and the clothes pegs.
Very quickly, photography asserted itself as a sincere and ideal way to discover, capture and share.
My first 24 x 36, a Canon FTb-QL
At the age of 19, my first steps in the written press, in a regional daily newspaper.
Very quickly, dozens of photographies and texts published each month at the local, then national and finally international level thanks to a collaboration with the Sipa and Sygma Photo Agencies.
With a press card in hand, the contracts diversified. Solicitations from television channels multiplied.
Video will try to play the spoilsport. It will interfere and gradually try to impose itself.
In charge of editing National Television News on France 3 for the 19/20 and Soir 3, permanent Grand Reporter for Thalassa, productions for Faut pas rêver on France 3 or for Animalia and finally with Ushuaïa on TF1.
At the Offshore World Boat Championship
TV Thalassa filming in Key West, Florida USA (1987)
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During two decades of daily collaborations with Television Stations, video has been the essential tool for sharing content effectively, relying on moving images, soundtrack and commentary. This technical hegemony could easily have destroyed any relationship with photography. The opposite happened. In the end, video has only crossed my life. Photography has always accompanied me, a bit like a discreet mistress by necessity. Faithful for more than half a century, photography has never left me for a single moment. Yesterday confidential, this passionate relationship is today openly assumed.
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Impressed by the purity of Premium Fine Art Prints |
Few people know that I have published hundreds of photographies in France and abroad. Fewer still are those who know of my deep relationship with photography, a passion that began when I was 9 years old. Today, 50 years later, I can admit that I have never stopped taking photographies, for pure pleasure. Whatever the place or the situation, free, intimate photographies, motivated only by my own desire. Photographies that were intended to remain confidential and private. It is a paradox that today, for the first time, with this website, these personal and unpublished photographies taken over the past half-century are accessible to you. A double paradox, since it is possible to discover and acquire them at the same time. You can thus decide to buy these numbered and certified Fine Art Prints made by the famous Picto Laboratory to decorate your walls, to optimize your taxation or to please your loved ones because if we believe Albert Schweitzer : “Happiness is the only thing that is doubled if we share it“. I wish you a pleasant visit ! |
