QUICK FACTS

Born in Africa in 1978
French & Dutch Citizenship
Internet Projet Manager/Photographer/Music Journalist
Currently located in France (lived in Netherlands & UK)
1m58 (5″2′), small is beautiful

CINEMA

I’ve been a cinema enthusiast since that very day my father took me to the theatre when I was around 4. Since that time, I had the chance to see tons of films but here are the ones that definitely have something to do with who I am today.

A Woman Under The Influence (John Cassavetes), Stranger Than Paradise (Jim Jarmush), Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders), Trust (Hal Hartley), Naked (Mike Leigh), The Doom Generation (Gregg Araki), Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese), The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola), Les Nuits Fauves (Cyril Collard), Beau Travail (Claire Denis), Blow Up (Michelangelo Antonioni), Dark Passage (Delmer Daves), In the Cut (Jane Campion), Kids (Larry Clark), La Strada (Federico Fellini), My Life Without Me (Isabel Coixet), The Last Picture Show (Peter Bogdanovich), Raising Victor Vargas (Peter Sollett), Secretary (Steven Shainberg), Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (Melvin Van Peebles), The 25th Hour (Spike Lee), Europa (Lars Von Trier), The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton), A bout de souffle (Jean Luc Godard), Wild Style (Charlie Ahearn), Baby Doll (Elia Kazan), Slam (Marc Levin), Leaving Las Vegas (Mike Figgis), The Panic in Neddle Park (Jerry Schatzberg), Five Easy Pieces (Bob Rafelson), Donnie Brasco (Mike Newell), She???s So Lovely (Nick Cassavetes), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Richard Brooks), Holiday (George Cukor), The Crossing Guard (Sean Penn), The Night of the Iguana (John Huston), Max et les ferrailleurs (Claude Sautet), Junebug (Phil Morrison), Factotum (Bent Hamer)???

LITERATURE

I’ve been in love with books since the day I learnt how to read. I haven’t read as much books as I saw films, but here’s some books whose images are engraved forever in my memory:

Into the Great Wide Opening (Kevin Canty), L???étranger (Albert Camus), Garçon manqué (Nina Bouraoui), Miracle de la rose (Jean Genet), Motel Chronicles (Sam Shepard), The Fire Next Time (James Baldwin), Black No More (George Schuyler), This Side of Brightness ( Colum McCan ), Ask the Dust (John Fante), The New Beats (S.H. Fernando Jr.), Harlem (Eddy L. Harris), Comment faire l???amour avec un nègre sans se fatiguer (Dany Lafferrière), Free Jazz Black Power (Philippe Carles), The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (Jamse Weldon Johnson), Story of My Life (Jay Mcinerney), Vox (Nicholson Baker), Push (Sapphire), Chien blanc (Romain Gary), The Blindfold (Siri Hustvedt), High Fidelity (Nick Hornby), Less than Zero (Bret Easton Ellis), The Glass Menagerie (Tennessee Williams)???

PHOTOGRAPHY

I am making pictures since the age of 15. Here’s the photographers who had a major impact on me:

Nan Goldin, Robert Frank, Sophie Calle, Duane Michals, Robert Mapplethorpe…

RANDOM THINGS I LIKE

People, my bed, long showers, my records collection, pasta, lounging in bed, travels, English language, Canada, african-american literature and history, my iPod mini, sex, smell of frying garlic in olive oil, rhubarb, going to bed at dawn, red wine, kisses with just a hint of tongue, reading newspapers, laughing, make people laugh, democracy, freedom, Europe, my Weber BBQ, smell of humus when it rains, cats, Internet, my homemade speakers, DVD’s, cheese, the sea, sailing, saskatoon berries & blueberries, TV series, films, 70′ funk, hip hop, jazz (especially free jazz), blaxploitation, photography, cranberry juice, drink & dial, United States of America, mob flicks, mangos, hotel rooms, avocados, chillies, Lisbon, Naples, cooking, dinners with my friends…

ADDICTIONS

Since I am quite a passionate girl, I have a few severe addictions:

Music, records, eBay, The Sopranos, cinnamon, photography and last but not least my friends…