He received a multi-disciplinary training at the Université des Beaux-Arts, Paris.
After stints as an actor then painter, he moved into cinema-related photography. Since the early '90s, his artistic activity has focused on the dynamic relationship between these two disciplines. His photography began to attract attention in France (in association with Galerie Michèle Chomette) and abroad (pieces are owned by the leading American collections, in particular), and in 1995 he began writing; his books have published by Actes Sud, Filigranes, Seuil, and Léo Scheer. His subject? His own work. This involves extracting photograms (images screened for 1/24th of a second, and invisible during a normal projection), which are then shown as large-format photographic prints. Within this reproduction process, each series explores a specific theme. In 2002, his work diversified: the artist began using his own images, composing them in conjunction with his texts and illustrations or with film images that he obtains.
He has been an associate professor at Paris-1 University since 1996.