Antoine Hulot

Photography entered my life early through my father, who carried a Minolta film camera with him since his military service, where he was in charge of the photography unit. At home, shelves were filled with albums of his friends, his travels, his military years, and of course our family life with my mother and older brother. I wasn’t yet taking pictures myself, but by spending hours looking through his photographs, I was already, unknowingly, learning how to see. I bought my first camera at twenty, during a trip to Australia: a modest Lumix compact that I cherished all the same. Like many people, I began with travel photographs meant only as personal memories, never for publication. Back in France, I continued and later bought my first Nikon DSLR (a D5500). Then came studies, a career in another field in Paris, and little by little photography slipped into the background. Years later, I felt the need to reconnect with a creative practice. I returned to my Nikon, repaired my father’s Minolta (which I still treasure) and experimented with video and drone photography, eventually becoming a licensed pilot. In the end, what brings me back to photography, again and again, is the desire to make images that tell human stories, because those are the ones that resonate.