After beginning my career in audiovisual production in Rouen in 2006, my path took me to New Zealand and then Australia, before growing through many journeys and projects around the world.
New Zealand, 2010–2013:
learning how to tell a story
I spent three years working for New Zealand Tourism in Northland, the country's wildest region. My role was to promote the area to visitors from around the world and make them want to experience it for themselves.
This is where I learned how to build a narrative. A tourism film is much like a wedding film: you have a few minutes to transport someone into a place, an atmosphere and an emotion. Not through spectacular effects, but through something true.
New Zealand also gave me an exceptional visual palette: low light across the fjords, morning mist over volcanoes and remarkably clear skies. It shaped my relationship with natural light, which still guides every shot I compose at a mountain wedding or beside Lake Annecy.
Australia, 2013:
where it all began
My first position abroad was with Bright Yellow Productions in Perth, an Australian production company that hired me to film corporate, tourism and urban development projects. On paper, nothing extraordinary. In reality, it changed everything.
Filming in a culture you do not yet understand—its codes, silences and ways of smiling—forces you to develop something film school cannot teach: pure observation. You can no longer rely on words. You watch. You feel. You anticipate.
That is where I understood that emotions do not need translating. They are recognised. Laughter in Perth looks exactly like laughter in Annecy. A father's tears as he watches his daughter get married are universal, whatever language he uses to express them.
Filming abroad taught me to read people before they speak. That is exactly what I do on a wedding day.
What those years taught me
about filming weddings
Today, when I film a destination wedding in French-speaking Switzerland, a French-British couple beside Lake Annecy or a multicultural ceremony in the Alps, I draw directly on those years spent observing people across very different places.
I speak French, English and Spanish fluently. In practical terms, I can coordinate with international suppliers, blend into a wedding where half the guests do not speak French and build trust with families arriving from London, Madrid or Sydney.
It also means I understand the cultural nuances that can make a difference in a film: how a British family may express emotion differently from a French one, how a traditional Swiss wedding is structured and how to tell the story of an international ceremony.
A bilingual or multicultural wedding is not a constraint—it adds another layer to the story.
Haute-Savoie today:
a home, not a limit
I settled in Thonon-les-Bains, between the shores of Lake Geneva and the mountains of the French Alps. It is a remarkably beautiful place at the crossroads of France, Switzerland and Italy—exactly the kind of setting where couples come to celebrate weddings that deserve to be filmed with care.
Being based in Haute-Savoie and French-speaking Switzerland is a choice, not a limitation. I also travel throughout France and abroad for destination weddings. Travel costs are always explained clearly in the quotation.
Wherever you choose to celebrate, I will arrive having already filmed in conditions far more unpredictable than a wedding day.