Biography
To me, illustration is like music; more than a piece of information, it is a feeling, a mood I try to convey through an image. Sometimes, my work is created with a clear idea of its meaning, sometimes, it’s just for the fun of creating, which is a meaning in itself! As for photography… the entire world translates itself into photographs in my head, sometimes visible to the naked eye, sometimes only to the naked mind.
I first studied photography at Kensington & Chelsea College, then at Kingsway College in London, and a few years later completed a BA in Graphic Design and Illustration at the London College of Communication (University of the Arts London). I have worked, among more things than there is space to remember, as an executive PA, human resources manager, freelance interpreter, translator, proofreader and ghost writer, as well as freelance photographer, supplying images to, among others, the Royal Geographical Society's picture library.
I was born in Beirut, Lebanon and have a French nationality. When I was three, war broke out in Lebanon and from then on my upbringing took place ping-ponging between Lebanon, Italy and France, though mainly in Lebanon.
I have been living in London since June 1990 and have also lived briefly in Chile and Argentina.
I speak fluent English, French, Spanish and Arabic and am passionate about learning new languages.
My cross-cultural upbringing, way of life and friends, have left me feeling universal, belonging to no place in particular and to all places at once. My own true home and eternal shelter is music, that all encompassing wonder, without which, as Nietzsche rightfully declared, “life would not be
worth living.”
