Series

I have always lived and worked in Madagascar and each of my photographs is a declaration of love for my country and its people. My father arrived from China in the 1920s, fleeing the Sino-Japanese conflict. He would have liked me to become a merchant like him. I first wanted to be a painter, which I was for twenty-three years. I practised photography as a model for my paintings. On the advice of a friend who found the photos of my paintings more beautiful than my paintings themselves, I abandoned painting for photography while keeping, I hope, a little of my painter’s eye when I take a photo. One sometimes makes encounters that change everything. I have been photographing for almost 50 years now and through my photographs, I know how to transmit many thing.