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BEFORE BIKES


Before I started shooting bikes, I used to create looping images – in the form of .gif files – from videos I had filmed myself.

It was literally a combination of a photo and a video, merged into a single image.

Some of them became quite popular online, and a few brands asked me if I could create some for their products. So that’s what I did for the next few years to earn a living.



At first, I didn’t know much about cameras, video or photography in general.

That’s why I started taking photos of my friends and their bikes. That's how “CYYYCLES” was born.



By the way, it’s spelled with three “Y” because I wanted this name to refer to those loops.

I worked as a freelance photographer/content creator for a few years, but it involved too much paperwork,
which I'm really terrible at. I expected to be behind a camera, not sitting at a desk filling out confusing forms.

I'm now a bike mechanic.

I stopped making loops, but I kept shooting bikes.

Check out a few of those loops ︎:

Personnal work (not made for any brand)







Commissioned work for various brands:


Canal+ Versailles.


Chanel × Grazia.




Bouygues Telecom.




ASUS CHI.





CIC.





Ejust.





GreyGoose.




Kenzo.




Mercure Hotels.




Mette Henriette.
(This series wasn’t made for a brand, it was a request from the artist Mette Henriette).




Petit Bateau.



I wish this was still my job.