Franck Maillard

46 years old, author Photographer.
For the past 14 years, I've been traveling the world, camera in hand.
Without staging anything, I try to get back to what is for me the origin of photography, the moment T.

When you travel, you have to build up your images quickly. In a second, the graphic perfection of a posture or a dream in a face is already gone.
Nothing before, nothing after...
So it's in the middle that I try to situate myself.
For me, a photograph must always be aesthetic. For me, that's its first definition. Then, whenever possible, comes its message. A beautiful image that tells a story, that makes you think...

Wide open spaces and remote regions are my dream...

For 8 years, I traveled exclusively in Asia, which remains for me the most beautiful of continents, with its rich culture and magnificent people.
Then came the discovery of Africa, the land of all beginnings, where, despite its wounds, we can still approach the world in its origins, with its fauna so fragile in the face of human activity.

Portrait, street and nature photography, as well as wildlife photography, are my favorite fields.

And needless to say, for me, the ultimate purpose of a photograph is the print...