1941_Born in Quebec city Canada: father_graphic artist, mother_housewife, both from middle-class origins_war baby out of 2 strangers, each very much afraid of life and yet_pretending_a rebel which had to be tied to a tree, or penned-in dog fashion_being 5 meant freedom-to-discover-the-world_years of growing/breaking through each cast the properly catholic breeding pair improvised without any thought other than the proper thing...to do...socially speaking; years of silent active reaction/rebellion, with all the consonnant containing social tactics

1964_start of the 5 year cycle at the faculty for architecture after primary school years and after 8 year of classical studies (greek, latin, philosophy and mathematics)_it also is the beginning of my photo shoot/develop/manipulate/print; also the beginning of a 'true' personal freedom

1965_walk-out the family and rent room at university_earn my stay/tuition with journal shoots/cbc tv_campus active as director of different art-oriented task units

1967_the expo year_a seven day shoot followed by manipulations of all kinds, bw 35mm. 8 foot prints

1968_first wedding to a teacher and move to Ottawa and start her master and doctorate process and get on with my architect stage by taking on the task of designing the Ottawa University Library plans for approval at the preliminary execution level_design and setting up of our townhouse interior_recipient of a provincial grant aimed at Quebec's basic architecture

1970_my photo work is exhibited by chance at the National Gallery of Canada, followed by a traveling exhibit for it during the two next years_audio_visual 4(10min each) for Cultural Affairs Quebec_recruited as a restoration architect for Northern Affairs Ministry_Federal

1971_recipient of a grant from the National Arts Council_Canada_also inventory of more than 10,000 old houses in Quebec through contractual agreements_acquaintance with Jack a painter

1973_acquisition and archeological peeling of a 'first settler' house in the Quebec's Kamouraska village_stripping down to the original period_end of first marriage from which a boy is now and first bankrupcy_move into Lucien Ouellet's rented house, Daly street Sandy Hill, get acquainted with Eugene Arima already living-in the old house on Daly street_a one year threesome life, until Lucien meets Rose-Aimee and I, Louise

1974_5_It begins with Rose moving in and me moving with Louise into Rose's attic_design and execution of a 16x20 feet mural_from a personal shoot_to be hung in the hall of an high end Montreal store_university of Ottawa teacher in the art/photo section_aesthetics and photography within a personal culture (next 3 years)_living now with Louise, in a loft across Lucien's house, a translator with a multi-nation education gathered from her family's diplomat postings_beginnings of my 8x10 camera work in the field (nature/architecture, in the lower St Lawrence area, Quebec) with a medium format (2x2) and a 35mm

1975_we rent/move into a whole house on Besserer street next to Daly, and take another Louise and her kid as sub-renters_visual study of french architecture through a 15 thousand kilometers of roaming all over France's secondary road system with an Hasselblad (one thousand transparencies) _23th_christmas_suicide of my youngest brother Michel, biologist, teacher in Mondou/Chad introduces me to the African Landscape through a sejour at Njamena (Fort Lamy)in order to settle my brother/friend remains/affairs

1976_year of photo shoots_ideal format and 120mm, polaroid_Louise+friends_trips to Boston, France, île aux oies/grues_ carny people with Randall_California photo shoot trip of best new museums for Jack's book with 8x10 shoots in Death Valley/Yosemite

1977_beginnings of my house renovation cycle which hatched the end of my Louise relation_541 Besserer_also a cycle of short relationships set around my slow departure from Ontario's shore to Quebec's_Louise had first bought the house and demurred when she saw me dismantling it, day by day_she would come from her work and slowly realize what she did not want_so, the south african developer(diamond smuggling money) transferred it to me_so began my long errance within the social territory of renovation, wrapped within photography_my construction team slowly took shape through renovations of partially burnt houses, in Ontario, following the Besserer full rebuilt_the woman which lived this period_Caroline from Black Hill, Nova Scotia_ then, Mychelle from Hull, became the inadvertent path to my Hull(qc)move_visiting her implied a one hour pedestrian walk across the river_right on the 'other' side, a dilapidated house/sign shop became my first qc adventure_now, still living into the renovated besserer house, became withina woman across the street_ she is the woman of my first qc criminal fire_the qc house(fully cured/plans approved/new fondations/new materials in, was put to the torch...nothing left_by that time, living in a rented apart near the burnt house, with everything else sold to finance this burn, but a soft woman to drive into the future_

1980_so bought a beautiful merchant's brick house on Laval/Hull and began the same process, only to see it criminally razed_had to 'pass' a lie-detector test_

1981_turned around again, started with a Wellington/hull brick house_ all three were to become an 'art gallery'__and the Wellington one came to be just that_designed/financed/built/artists exhibited_by the man_also got married again to pregant Rachel_second California trip with the 8x10

1982_printing of my first portfolio from 8x10 negs_digging and construction of gallery

1984_opening of the Camera Obscura Gallery_one exhibition, then forced closure_second bankrupcy_renovation of Rachel's recently bought small house_now two children

1985_Membership within a Toronto housing coop brings us into the city's center area_start of earning through resume resume design, location queen street east_

1986_start of high level computer design for the publication business_three years of excessive work/success, breaks my second family_years of photography of the rapidly disappearing industrial waterfront_three macII with 20inch bw screens_

1989_Lise comes around professionnally_becomes the move partner_a relations which carries us for the next three years_many 8x10 shoots along the tidal spaces of Le Bic

1990_Lise buys the house/bakery at Isle-Verte, qc, a place left empty 20years_last year of my computerized design for Toronto agents_the next year will be spent spending my cash on a basic cleaning of the wreckage_around april Nicole briefly shows-up in relation with the Toronto computer work_

1991_a cycle winds down, Lise sells to Nicole and goes back to Hull_now, the third family cycle begins_Nicole, doing her doctorate in quebec, starts her unique pregancy inmay 1992, at her new place, here_where renovations, extensive were taking care of my time_besides walking the tidal shores/valleys, shooting the rocks, all was brute physical work_the only computer in the house was an old macII from Toronto_

1994_a big power mac comes in_a trade for my inheritance(father side) and my first webpage is built, through days of learning in the dark_one day for me and the other for Nicole, everything circling around Julien Nicole's one child_this is the start of my full time dedication to imaging

1996_Nicole departs with Julien to live in the town of Quebec and social security becomes my mainstay while renovation cycles alternate with bouts of extreme architectural work in the Ottawa area_this opens the way to digital photography_ started with a nikon coolpix5000 and through a canon rebel_2D and now 5D_computer wise, it has been a series of upgrades from the first imac to the now intel imac_print wise, 2004 has seen an epson 4000 pro take residence here_all this whas made possible, simply through determination, will power, vision_and oh yes, hard work_

2004_Nicole gets back ownership of the 'house next door' through the 'natural' termination of a 99 year land rental_the original 1835 land title is restored_since 2005, this old house is being turned into a landscaped glass enclosure which will be used as a test area for my work_it has become the 'shed' to the main house

2005_a 12 day_132 kilometer trek on the appalachian ridge, Gaspésie, with Marc_a first_

2007_65, now an 'old' new state pensioner, my time is totally devoted to image work/print, on an daily basis, with photo shoots and residence stages with Julien

2009_as for all the skills which are now imbedded in my persona, I have to say that came around simply because I have always shied-away from the usual path, the master/servant one, the one were even your thinking way or mentality becomes the one from the 'dominant', either another individual or social structure_ integral freedom comes at a 'terrible' price but is essential to one's respect of one's inner self so priceless that one has to accept the fact of becoming an 'outcast' to even her/his own family and friends in a more subdued manner_