"My father was a printer and from my childhood I was immersed in the world of printing and books. My passion for photography dates back to my 13th birthday when, in my grandmother’s attic, I discovered in boxes of old photographic plates: I was fascinated. I immediately bought a camera and started taking pictures in the countryside around Nevers. The summer of my 17th birthday I worked at the Chantiers de l'Atlantique and this is how I was able, thanks to my pay, to buy myself a device. Later, during my studies at the Estienne school, a school which saw on its benches many painters and photographers - Doisneau, Boubat, Fontanarossa - I perfected my technique.

I started taking photos on a more regular basis although it was a vacation activity for a long time. Photos of concerts, portraits of musicians and singers and also landscapes of my favorite place: The Loire. But it was only when, exhausted, I left my post of technical director at Altedia, that I decided to make my real job of what was until then my greatest passion: photography.

In general I like black and white. But with flowers it's another adventure.

I have always loved flowers, my Franco-Italian mother mixed flowers and vegetables in her garden to obtain an aesthetic effect. So I cultivated a familiarity with the floral world very early on. For the photo it all started a night of insomnia, a night full of ideas where under a sudden impulse I took a bouquet and, after having arranged and lit with a flash, I took my first photo of this subject in black and white. For nine months I amused myself by capturing all the nuances of gray without filling up on these bouquets. Often I drew them on rag paper which made them look like drawings.

The idea to colorize them came to me later: the best time is at night when everything is calm and I can quietly enter my own universe. Since then it has become almost a ritual: it happens around 9:30 p.m. - midnight. After buying my flowers from the florist I compose my bouquet and after observing it from all sides I choose the angle that seems most favorable to me. Then I photograph it in black and white or in color, whatever, then I colorize it. Everything happens very quickly, instinctively, according to the inspiration of the moment: I go from realism to magnificence.

After defining my technique, I watched well the Dutch with whom I have some affinities. I do it more like those who used to color photos or movies before the invention of color. It’s a homecoming. My composition avoiding a sad and manufactured symmetry reaches a living asymmetry which highlights a new beauty, lush and baroque. My goal: to access another beauty than that of reality. The reality of flowers is melancholy since they have a short life which reminds us that we are passing through. My photo, on the contrary, capturing and fixing them at the most glorious moment of their existence is a guarantee of immortality. "

Talking to Eurydice Trichon Milsani (Dr. in art history and writer)