Do what you want...

It's funny because last year, I believe I made almost the same pictures than now. Paris Fashion Week, Mountain Bike photo shoot, concerts... I don't know why, but I feel that 2012 is a bit different. Maybe because I know that I do what I want to do, and I know where I want to go. And this is a great feeling. Here are a bunch of pics that I shot these last days (and tonight during the John Lawrence Sullivan's fashion show).
You have mountain bike, music and fashion. Completely different. But this is why I like it so much. I love sport, I love music, I love fashion. So what? I shoot what I love, and that's all! Oh, in 15 days, I'll cover a Classic Cars Rally on the snow in the East of France. Another thing I love : classic cars.

Thanks to Vélo Vert magazine, Getty Images and the great guys of Mars Avenue to trust in me.

The great Jane Badler

Fashion & BMX, the Ranger RX did it well.

When I bought my Elinchrom Ranger RX at Db Photo two months ago, it was first to complete a contract for a big company consisting in a serie of more than 600 portraits of employees. Not very interesting considering the "art" side, but good enough to test my new Ranger RX in nomad photo studio conditions. Few days after, I went to visit a friend of mine who is an "old" national race level BMXer. I don't need to say that his 3 young sons have already some impressive BMX skills! Eddy, the oldest one, is a national top 10 rider in his category and is faster and more stylished than most of the guys I know! Eddy loves also fashion and photography and wants to be a model, I'm sure he can do it due to his cute face! Well, I brought my Ranger RX flashes into the BMX track to do a photo test with this young star, with and without his BMX. It was a great sunny day and I believe I went back with some good pics in my memory card. Thanks to Mickael and all his great familly, and also to all the young riders who were on the BMX track and who alowed me to ride ridiculously a cruiser BMX ;-)

9 days later...

Once again, it was the Fashion Week in Paris. And once again, it was long and hard. But I think these 9 days were the hardest and the most exhausted of all the Fashion Weeks I did (well, I didn't do a lot, maybe 4 or 5).

Okay, let's go for the statistics : 9 days of non stop work (ok, 8 for me because I had a day off), 24 shows + 6 backstage coverages, 11 different places (Hotel Westin, Hotel Meurice, Le Grand Palais, Palais de Tokyo, etc.), 12680 photos taken, 1845 photos uploaded, 1 night without to sleep, a 16Go CF card (with 2 shows inside) cancelled by error (thanks to SanDisk Rescue Pro for the recovery!), a LOT of work, not a lot of sleeping hours, some really beautiful girls, and... When is the next Fashion Week?!

"Sacby" Quentin Caffier

Some news from Quentin Caffier and Sacby collaboration. We did these images few months ago. More photos on Quentin Caffier's blog. You can also visit the Sacby website homepage.

Photo by Quentin Caffier. Model : Iveta @Idole. Make Up : Guilaine Frichot. Style by Lorraine Diard Robino. Photo assistant : Richard Bord

Fashion Week Marathon

While I was in Paris shooting the Fashion Week, photographers like Christophe Margot were in the mountains shooting the best Freeriders in the world during the first step of the Freeride World Tour... The difference? He was outside in a big fridge, I was inside under the sun of the runway spotlights with 15 others photographers and cameramen around me. That's all. Oh okay, that's almost all...

Fashion Week is always intense. During 9 days I shot 17 shows (Menswear Prêt à Porter and Haute Couture), I spent a long day covering the Who's Next, a fashion convention in Porte de Versailles, and I went 3 times to the Paris Hotel de Ville to shoot singer Paolo Conte, director Peter Brook and singer Alain Chamfort who reveived the Vermeil Medal of the City of Paris. I don't know exactly how many pictures I have taken, but I guess it's between 8000 and 10 000 pictures!!
 Sometimes I hate the Fashion Week, sometimes I love it. When I say I love it, I'm thinking about very nice creations designers make and also thinking about the most beautiful places in Paris we have to go to shoot the catwalks like Hotel Crillon, hotel Westin or hotel Meurice. Places that I would have never been if I didn't shot the Fashion shows.Thanks to Getty Images France for that!

Here are few examples of the shows I shot. More images can be seen on the Getty Images website.
Sorry for the big copyrights, but it was a hard work and these images must be sold if I want to pay my rent, my new MacBook Pro and my favorite cookies at the end of the month!

Ehud

Fashion photo shoot in Montmartre, Paris

Yesterday, we were at Montmartre, Paris, to shoot Coralie Joos for a fashion magazine and a website. We were lucky to be under the sun during almost all the day, but the temperature wasn't really warm! A bit hard for the model, but not only...

Here are few pictures from the making of I took yesterday.

Photographer : Quentin Caffier
Model : Coralie Joos
Hair : Vee Gomes
Make Up : Coline Roussel
Style : Lorraine Diard
Assistant : Richard Bord

Fashion Week vs Roc d'Azur

Since I'm back from the USA, I had almost no rest. Lucky me, I've had a lot of work for Getty Images and then for Vélo Vert Magazine. It's crazy how a photographer can work with so many different people...

Sac By

Only few words and few pictures about a photo shooting we did for Sac By. As usually, it's always a good moment to work with Quentin, as he is a really nice guy and a great photographer. Thank you also to Guilaine who do a really good job each time I work with her.

Photographer : Quentin Caffier

Model : Tatiana & Iveta for Idole
Makeup and hair : Guilaine Frichot
Photographer assistant : bibi!

Lingerie...

While I am in California, Paris welcomes the 2010 Who's Next trade show... I use to assist the great photographer and friend Quentin Caffier for many of his fashion studio photoshoots in Paris. Today, we are proud to see that our work has been published in the new Who's Next "Guide des Tendances". Quentin shot the two models Julia Swell and Anne Suze for Isabelle Colomb on a beautiful house boat in Paris. I guess I don't have to tell you it was a hard day!

Quentin Caffier's blog
Isabelle Colomb
Julia Swell
Anne Suze