Jay has been photographing tirelessly, without ever having followed rules. Neither school nor technical dogma: only the eye, the instinct, and the desire to grasp what goes through me.
His work was built in disorder, in raw experience, in reality. His gaze was forged in the street, between graffiti, urban art, Japanese calligraphy and images of brutalist propaganda. Before capturing images, He drew letters. He was looking for the right walls, frank lights, impactful compositions. His graphic gesture has sharpened over time influenced as much by the fluidity of shodō (Japanese calligraphy), as by the frontal impact of 20th century propaganda images. This tension between elegance of the line and the strength of the message remains at the heart of his photography. From his loves that have become models of a moment, to wild or exposed graffiti, from wastelands to powerful architectures, faces stolen from passers-by, he never stopped capturing raw moments, visual oppositions where everything is said without a word.
Artistic vision
He approaches the city like a living canvas, like a changing scene. The portraits, often captured at a wide angle, extend what graffiti and calligraphy have taught him: deal with vanishing lines, playing with perspective, bringing up the subject in a constrained space, and enhancing emptiness as much as presence.
Jay captures the essence of humanity, places, and fleeting moments that tell universal stories. At the crossroads of intimacy and vastness, the images blend portraits, street scenes, and urban landscapes, seeking truth and emotion in every frame.
Carefully crafted through observation and intuition, his work emphasizes contrasts, light and shadow, movement and stillness, simplicity and complexity. Each image draws its strength from the atmosphere of the moment, revealing beauty in the unnoticed and creating visuals that resonate with depth and timelessness.
At its core, his photography seeks to tell stories that connect emotionally. It explores the poetry of everyday life, the beauty in imperfection, and the power of suspended moments. Each photograph is an invitation to reflect, to wonder, and to see the extraordinary in the ordinary.
A world of timeless beauty and thoughtful storytelling awaits, where every frame offers a glimpse into the extraordinary within the everyday.
Inspired by street culture
Jay’s inspirations cross photography (i.e. Peter Lindbergh, Harry Gruyaert, Phil Penman), Street Art (i.e. Banksy, Mode2, D-Face, JonOne), and 20th century painting (i.e. Pierre Soulages, Magritte, Picasso). Behind all these names, a common thread remains: the gesture, inherited from graffiti and calligraphy, the strong, raw, contrasting image, and the emotion, without staging, without frills.
