Samuel has been photographing Nature for 20 years, with a predilection for the most remote areas, where the place of man is precarious or impossible.
He encountered the giant dunes of Namibia, the cloud forests of Costa Rica, and the fury of the lava in Hawaii. He photographed the multicolored lagoons of the Altiplano at 5,000 m, crossed the immensities of Atacama, and approached the pure acid lakes of Indonesia. He traveled through the Ethiopian landscapes, immersed himself in the granite mountains of China, crossed the plateaus of North Vietnam, and climbed the explosive volcanoes of Kamtchatka.
His work has been internationally awarded, such as the FAPA (1st place 2021), MIFA (Silver Medal 2020), ND Awards (Photographer of the Year 2019, 1st place), Epson Pano Awards (Gold 2018), MIFA (Gold and Silver Medal 2018), Monochrome Awards (1st place).
He recently exhibited at the Carrousel du Louvre (2019), at Mondapart Gallery (Boulogne 2020), in the UAE (Sharjah, 2021), and at the prestigious Orangerie du Sénat (Paris 2022).
As the years went by, Samuel saw tourism increasing in alarming proportion, threatening the environment, photographing everything, and copying each other. Samuel realized that more than ever, a close and personal view was necessary. The time of Ansel Adams when photographers could reveal unexplored areas is over. Exploration needs to be personal, and more complex. He considers that Nature offers raw diamonds and his role, as a photographer, is to polish the
