GREENMAN FESTIVAL, Wales 08/2026

The Green Man Festival is an independent music, science, and arts festival held annually in mid-August in the Brecon Beacons, Wales. Green Man has grown into a week-long event with a capacity of 25,000, featuring primarily live music (particularly alternative, indie, rock, folk, dance, and Americana). This festival, whose finale is inspired by Burning Man, is however, the antithesis of the famous American festival in the Nevada desert. Due to dry weather conditions in 2026, the organizers have decided to cancel the burning of the mythical figure of the Green Man, a symbol of rebirth and the cycle of new growth that occurs every spring. The atmosphere, characterised by a distinctly english exuberance, is first and foremost family-friendly and accessible to all. Open to people from all walks of life, ticket prices are very reasonable for three days of festivities and concerts. Held in a vast park filled with centuries-old trees, everything is designed to celebrate and respect the environment. The site will be left completely undamaged and free of pollution once the festival has ended. 

QINGHAI, China 02/2026

This region, slightly larger than France, consists mainly of mountains rising to over 6,000 metres in height and has been home to the Tibetan Khampa people on its high plateaus for hundreds of years. This nomadic people of yak herders, organised into small family groups, occupy part of the territory and move several times a year with the seasons to allow the herds to graze (often more than a hundred animals per family). The yak is the cornerstone of their livelihood. It provides the ‘wool’ for weaving clothes and the canvas for their transhumance tents, milk and meat for food, dried dung for heating and cooking, and the money from its sale to buy what they cannot produce themselves.

SHETLAND, Scotland 08/2025

Consisting of around a hundred islands, only sixteen of which are inhabited, the archipelago has a very jagged coastline and is located north of the Orkney Islands, south-east of the Faroe Islands and west of Norway, between the Atlantic Ocean to the west and the North Sea to the east. With the exception of a few trees, the ground is devoid of tree vegetation. Apart from Lerwick, human presence is rare and there are few dwellings. Shetland has three National Nature Reserves: the two seabird colonies of Hermaness and Noss, and the Keen of Hamar reserve for preserving flora. 

SICHUAN & QINGHAI, China 08/2024

Crossing the Tibetan plateaux from Chengdu to Golmud. This is the least populated region of China. Here, Tibetan nomads live and raise yaks, surrounded by peaks that often exceed 6,000 metres and whose access roads pass through passes over 4,000 metres high.

MALI 1984-1985

Historical photographs of Mali in the 1980s. Dogon country, town of Mopti on the banks of the Niger river, bush village market, traditional Bambara mask on the road to Guinea.

THE GREAT DROUGHT, north of Mali 08/1984

Severe drought in northern Mali as we travel up the tracks to Taoudenit, home to Peul and Tuareg herders. An area closed today.

SCHOOL OF DANCE, Palais Garnier Paris 1983

Claude Bessy’s School of Dance rehearses in the circular Zambelli studio set up under the dome of the Bibliothèque-Musée. My first B&W reportage using the 35 mm Kodak TriX 400 and my Nikon FM2, the first camera I bought with my savings and still in use today.

WEDDING EVE, Beni Yenni Algeria 1981

Wedding preparations in a village near Beni Yenni in Kabylia. The festivities begin on the eve of the ceremony with a men’s party attended by the groom.

VIDAL FARM. Savoy France 1979

The Vidal farm in the Savoie region and the mobile still where the farmers carried the marc to make the eau de vie.