When I met Dominic Besner

When I called Dominic Besner to ask him if I could take pictures of him in the context of a work for my professional photography training, I had never thought that he will say yes …

Dominic is a famous painter from Montreal, who creates majestic artistic paints with flaming colors… but I wanted to capture the work of the painter in front of his magnificent characters and as such, I preferred the black and white pictures of my serie. Watching Dominic working was for me an extraordinary experience. It seems to me that his characters were starring at him and were becoming alive in front of him. A dance between him and his subjects that I have witnessed for just a moment…

I even dared to take the place of one of his Ivory Madones …

Besner announces the title of his next exhibition