I have been travelling with a camera ever since I got my fist Minolta for my baccalauréat some 32 years ago. Whether it is for work or for vacation, this camera is a faithful companion.

Photographying is part of life, like looking. The camera is simply an extension of the eye. The technique is not that important, especially today. When seen by the eye, in a flash, the photo is already taken even before the brain has given an order to the finger to press the shutter-release button. A photo is just the physical evidence of a moment, a certain configuration of the light, the face of a person, a situation, a mood or a feeling, a man-made artifact. Wherever it is in the world, whenever it is, our reality is filled with these seconds of eternity, dear to Robert Doisneau. The photographer is there to steal these seconds and turn them into eternity.