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French-Congolese-Angolan Visual artist born in Brazzaville. He is part of the pioneer generation of openly gay photographers and AIDS activists from the african continent. Former Planet Africa and Act-Up Paris activist where he advocated for many years.

From 2001 to 2009, he contributed to the writing of articles for the magazine Action, the monthly magazine of Act Up, as well as in the newsletter of Protocol South. The human being is central in his engagement. Currently, he lives and works between Paris and Kinshasa.

Since 2010, he is invested in a long-range artistic photographic and autobiographical story. In the world of photography, Africa is often exposed to what author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie calls "the danger of a unique story : if we hear only one story about another person or another country we risk a critical incomprehension ". That's why he explores, especially in French-speaking Africa, the living conditions of minorities, marginalized and vulnerable by race, class, validism, gender, HIV/AIDS, religious or sexual orientation. Documenting their relations with the rest of society and their strategies of survival and resistance. A reappropriation of the discourse which addresses first to minorities, and then to the dominante majorities, north and south, also.

This global project, titled Minorities, has already gone through several series (Inside, Lolendo, Erzulie, Molendé, Bolingo, Backstage), and will have other stages in Africa, the Caribbean and beyond. He was a collaborator and the partner of the photographer Nicola Lo Calzo and the queer artist, Julien Devemy. Occasionally he responds to orders for photographic work for organizations including Progrès santé sans prix (PSSP), Sidaction, Coalition Plus, le Kiosque Info Sida/Checkpoint Paris.

The Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford has exhibited the photographic series "Lolendo" from 1 June 2021 to 30 June 2022.

Speaker at the "Collecting, preserving and exhibiting the social history of HIV/AIDS" study day devoted to public representations of the epidemic. he was part of the monitoring committee of the exhibition "HIV/AIDS : The epidemic is not over! " which took place at the Mucem in Marseille from 15 December 2021 to 2 May 2022.

He is invited with Julien Devemy by François Piron, curator of the group exhibition "Exposed" based on the book « What AIDS did to me. Art and activism at the end of the 20th century » by Elisabeth Lebovici, which took place at the Palais de Tokyo from 17 February to 14 May 2023.