Education
Kiki studied humanities and social sciences before turning towards drawing and painting.
Kiki studied humanities and social sciences before turning towards drawing and painting.
In Montparnasse, he was introduced by the actor Michel Simon to Henry Miller who advised him to devote himself to photography. He then worked with the ethnologist Robert Jaulin and traveled through Asia, Central Europe, Cuba, Jamaica, and the United States. In the early 1990s he joined the humanistic photography movement, associating with Willy Ronis.
The was created in 2006, to promote his work and to provide certificates of authenticity.
«Demanding and opposed to clichés, your photographic work has the seduction of poetry. By seeking to reveal imaginary, your eye transcends the reality and daily life and leds to the emergence of images of great creativity » – Bertrand Delanoë (Mayor of Paris)
1999 Telos Institute (Seattle)
2001 Nart Gallery (Paris)
2002 Tokyo International Forum
2002 Atelier Visconti (Paris)
2002 Salon des Indépendants (Paris)
2004 Hype Gallery Palais de Tokyo (Paris)
2004 2009 Galerie ARTEnovance.
Since 2000, Kiki of Paris is a member of the ADAGP.1.