I recall that during a pleasant discussion of photography, Edouard Boubat had told me: finally, we photographers, we tirelessly turn around the same photograph, a kind of perfect image, a grail that we do not, Ever, and which would be an ideal self-portrait.

The great American portraitist Richard Avedon also said: in my portraits, the other is the mirror of my own states of mind.

I think that any photograph is a self-portrait, more or less successful.
This is true of portraits. The other is a mirror for the photographer.

This book brings together some sixty portraits, known or anonymous people, from Africa, Asia, France, my village or my family … sixty very beautiful memories, some sixty people with whom I I found myself, with whom I share a certain number of values ​​and who therefore realize, collectively and without much knowledge, a self-portrait! …