Hydra has been living in my imagination for much longer than I`ve actually been going there.

I first discovered the island through the pages of a magazine. Back then, CôtéSud magazine @cotemaison was something of a bible for me. I was about to turn twenty. I remember seeing photographs of a beautiful hotel on Hydra and becoming quietly obsessed with the idea of the place.

That summer, I worked for three months straight. When October came, I used my savings to travel there alone and to treat myself for my 20th birthday.

I arrived on an island that felt almost deserted. The season was over. The light was softer. The streets were empty. I spent my days wandering without a plan, listening to the distant braying of donkeys and feeling wonderfully anonymous.

I fell in love with Hydra.

Years later, in 2020, I returned. A strange year for everyone. And this time, I discovered the island in summer.

You know how sometimes memories improve a place? How reality can never quite compete with what you`ve built in your mind?

Hydra did the opposite.

It was even more beautiful than I remembered.

Maybe that`s why I`ve always believed in the power of images.

Some photographs don`t just capture a place. They plant a seed. They stay somewhere in the back of your mind, quietly shaping dreams, future journeys and sometimes entire chapters of your life.

Over the years, I`ve built a kind of personal iconography made of places, books, photographs and memories. Hydra has long been part of it.

And all these years later, the feeling remains exactly the same.

I already want to go back.
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#hydra #greekislands #travelphotography

Lately, through my lens:

▪︎ A self-portrait. 
▪︎A colourful collaboration with @vanityboum and @inspirestudio. 
▪︎Summer imagery for @havenhouse_experience
▪︎A Pantone moment on the beach in Le Touquet. 
▪︎Two retreats launched with @mymoroccanescape at @kasbahbabourika and almost fully booked before we could catch our breath.

And then, a project that has lived quietly in the background for several years.

"Superpouvoirs", by @sylvieganter, will be published on August 26th by @editions_du_rocher Every photograph in the book is mine, the recipes are by the wonderful @jelkaholler, and the whole project was born around the desire to make wellbeing feel joyful, accessible and deeply human.
The title alone says a lot. At its heart lies the question:
What truly nourishes us? Not only in food, but in life?

I’ll have plenty of opportunities to tell you more about the book in the coming months.

For now, I`m simply feeling grateful.
For the trust. For the collaborations. For the ideas that become reality. And for the reminder that some of the most meaningful projects take years to bloom.

A lot of good stuff to be proud of.
A lot of good stuff still to come. ❤️
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#creativedirection #lifestylephotography #creativejourney #colortherapy

For almost five years now, @hotelballu has been one of my favourite creative playgrounds.

What started as a photography assignment gradually evolved into something much broader : building a visual language, shaping an atmosphere, imagining stories, finding new angles, season after season.

One of the things I love most about working with a place over time is that the obvious photographs have long been taken. You have to keep looking. Keep noticing. Keep reinventing.

Different rooms. Different light. Different seasons. Different moods.

And yet, always the same place.

A luxury in today`s world is to be given enough time to develop a genuine visual relationship with a place. @hoteballu has given me exactly that.

Nearly five years later, I still haven`t run out of things to photograph.
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#lifestylephotographer ##condenasttraveller #boutiquehotel #smallluxuryhotelsoftheworld

This week, Paris felt like it had skipped straight to the climax of summer.
Except summer hasn`t even started yet.
The city slowed down just enough. People lingered by the Seine, evenings stretched on forever. 
Between shoots, editing, writing and all the usual deadlines, there were also a few unexpected "flâneries", including one with my friend and muse @mariemersier who kindly turned the camera back on me for once. And a front-row seat to @jr spectacular transformation of the Pont Neuf.

I`ve always been a hot-weather girl. Give me sunshine, long evenings and the promise of summer and I`m instantly in a better mood.

Kind of a perfect week, really.

It means: the best is still to come 🌞
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#iloveparis #travelphotography
#lifestylephotographer #summerlove