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The wrong kind! Selfie, no selfishness...no respite from narcissism! Our contemporary society has created a latent and constant anxiety about our image, our own representation in society. This constant need to feel accepted, loved, adulated, rated or appreciated, to fit in better with the icons that propaganda throws at us on a daily basis, has made us unhappy because we're human: we're getting older, we're getting tired, we're sad or depressed, we're hungry or thirsty, we live or survive in environments that may or may not be romantic or exceptional, so we're simply everyday and not very much like the images that advertising bludgeons us with. This series of portraits grew out of my second confinement at COVD 21 and a request for a self-portrait from my employer, the fine arts studios of the city of Paris. How to represent myself without trying to sell myself, to make an ideal representation of myself and my image, using filters and photoshop, how to show myself without degrading myself, how to detach myself from my reflection so as to be able to bear and love it. I'm a man, an old man, a human being who wears the adventures of his life high in his eyes, in his body and on his u