Internship at Agence Vu

It was for real. I needed to be at Vu at 10am yesterday morning. I lived my first parisian rush hour with suburbs train (instead of smelling Tim Hortons coffee, it smells like fresh croissant and espresso coffee… mmmmm… )

Pauline, the woman I was dealing with since May from last year, a tiny little french girl gave me (a french) welcoming My desk, computer and chair were « waiting » for me. I did a little tour, meeting everybody

I’ll be working with : Patrick, Thomas, Jean-Baptiste and Laeticia from the media department. I’ll do picture research for magazine and newspapers, archiving, dealing with clients from newspaper and magazines and developing new market. I learned the data research engine and looked at all the photos and photographers material, visited their gallery…. Just gorgeous.

VU has a unique and really artistic style… they keep saying they are not a photography agency, but a photographers agency.

For those who feel they have an artistic / edgy style in their photos. Seriously, go look at Vu agency website. Blurry, colourful, contrasty, double exposure… everything is respected. Paris is an artistic city where people are looking for beauty all the time. The non-conventional is respected.

Today I had lunch with the photographer David Sauveur, I had chance to talk to another great photographer Bernard Desprez, (who going to help me with contacts etc..) and with Okahara Kosuke, a young photographer (my age) from Japan who did amazing work on drug dealing in Columbia. All of that in two days. Talking to those people makes you wanna grab your camera and shoot right away…

They are all photographers, journalists and artists. People are buying their prints, making books and publishing their work in the most prestigious magazines and newspapers in Europe. The agency is not too small, not too big. They want to help me meeting people, making contacts and ask questions to whoever I want.

After one week in France. I feel like everything is possible. Competition is big, there’s a lot of photographers, but it pushes you to search and push to keep your own style and communicate what YOU have to say. I discovered many new inspirations

Do I regret anything? A big NO… Anyone reading this, who has any questions on how an agency is working or any other questions, send me an email, I’ll answer you with pleasure!

A little serie on my way to my internship in the Metro in Paris: