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Born in in Switzerland in 1977, I grew up in an aseptic. conservative but wonderful natural Swiss environment.

In the 90's, I wanted to break rules and wished to travel the world on my own. I first started to explore modernity and evasion through the electronic music scene. This was my first getaway and exploration of a more creative, somehow unrealistic world. I then started to Dj beside my job for a time. Today I still listen to music when I create. I also prefer to have loud music when I shoot, it effects the way I capture moments and set the atmosphere of a shooting with models.

My attraction to photography gradually increased while traveling around Asia, more vibrant, energetic or even unorganised I felt to capture those moments. At that time I started using an analog (argentic) camera. Nowadays. I generally shoot in digital but still enjoy the feeling of a spontaneous vintage camera.

I am a versatile and autodidact photographer. My pictures are sometimes blurring or imprecise. I prefer to capture candid, live-life time pictures more than high quality or perfectly photoshopped pictures in studio. I simply try to reproduce what attracted my attention, my subjects of predilection are fetishism & erotism, modernity in contradiction to tradition, street photography or natural environment. Photography is similar to a second life, a deep breath out of my daily intense "work hard" life. I explore new territories and express aspects of my personal universe which I can't do at work.

By facing the lens girls/models become like actress and free & intensify some aspects of their personality. I really like this intimate complicity, it allowed me to either be more passive and let the models lead the moment, create some more ironic scene or just being "cliche".

With the profusion of images sprayed online, magazines and books, no one can pretend to not be influenced. I am deeply impressed and attracted by the work of Diane Arbus, Aaraki Nubuyoshi and Daidō Moriyama. They are many other photographers and directors I admire but I wouldn't say they influence my approach.

EvocTime reflects for "evocative times" I use this name in order to stay anonymous.

EvocTime Photography (D.)