Born in 1975, Guillaume Pietri is a photographer who lives and works between Paris and Lisbon.
After studying Philosophy in Paris, he left the French capital to work at sea
the French capital to work at sea on ocean racing boats.
on ocean racing boats.
During his sailings, Guillaume discovered the underwater world and gradually left the deck of a sailing boat to put on a diving suit to put on a diving suit and earn a living as a diver off the African coast off the African coast: uncertain peregrinations during twenty years the Mediterranean and the Atlantic. A small camera is often part of the journey. In the viewfinder: the sea
sea, its expanse, its workers, a distant cape, a cliff, a landslide.
a cliff, a landslide.
And, finally, it is the practice of photography that catches up with him
and takes over. From then on, the adventure took place on land.
The expanse is no longer the same: it is the urban space of the big cities that
It is the urban space of the big cities that now attracts his gaze. The photographer, from now on, his time to work on books.
