Frédéric is a French documentary photographer, whose photographic approach is one that uses the chronicle as its preferred narrative mode.
His work describes a world under construction, whose history, beliefs and traditions are tirelessly rubbing shoulders with an irrepressible mutation. Successively based in Tanzania, Nigeria, Sudan, Chad and Uganda, his photographic stories linger on the trough of the news, on unexpected stories or on the existence of populations socially excluded, stigmatized or caught up in the gear of conflicts.
Proponent of Slow Journalism and intrigued by the issue of taboo, he led for several years a work on sexual minorities in the Great Lakes region which has been published in "Les Belles Lettres" publisher in 2020, as a book entitled: "Ekifire".
His project on Lake Victoria, rewarded with the Visa D'Or Magazine 2019, focus on the dilemma between survival and environmental preservation that is plaguing the populations living around Lake Victoria, in East Africa.
Since October 2019, he is based in Central Asia, in Kazakhstan, where he leads a long term project about the building of the identity on the last Soviet Union Republic, in an environment where the contrast between the contemporary aspirations and the legacy is nowhere higher in the post-Soviet perimeter.
His reports regularly presented to Visa pour l'Image, have appeared in recent years in many French and international publications.
Finalist World Press Photo 2020 (Environment Singles category) with Lake Victoria
Visa d’Or Magazine (Perpignan 2019) with Lake Victoria
CAP Prize 2019 for Contemporary African Photography, Finalist with Wakaliwood an Ugandan cinema studio.
Visa d’Or Magazine 2016, Perpignan - Finalist with Ekifire, sexual minorities in Eastern Africa
Pride Photo Awards 2016 - 3rd Price, theme Insiders/Outsiders, sexual minorities in Eastern Africa
Istanbul Photo Awards 2016 - 2nd Price, Story Sports with Luzira Prison Football League
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