Marie-Catherine was born and raised in Paris. Throughout her childhood, her mother would insist in taking her to the Louvre on her days off from school. Even though she often resisted, these trips to the famed museum were not in vain. They helped her sharpen and define her love for beauty. Today, if you ask her what she does for a living, she’ll answer: “I look for beauty and I capture it. I haven’t yet met a person I can’t take beautiful pictures of. People often don’t realize it, but beauty is everywhere and in every person. The art is to be able to see it and reveal it”. And that, she does.
After being a professional photographer for less than a year, she was taken on by the Gamma Agency which was at the time the largest photo agency in the world. During her interview, the president of Gamma told her: “You are uniquely gifted in capturing people’s true essence.”
Her early training started with fashion, then commercial photography, and then with celebrity portraiture. But her fondness for the innocence and simplicity of children is what drew her to what she does today. Her eclectic background gives her a unique versatility which is very transparent in her work. Few portrait photographers have so much to offer.
Marie-Catherine loves to constantly innovate. She originated a new type of panoramic montages (viewable under the “CREATIVITY” tab) which paint spectacular frescoes of people and backgrounds. These montages require tremendous skills and creativity.
She is also the creator of the N.O.W. (No One’s Watching) photo shoots (“ESCAPADES” tab) which are humoristic depictions of what happens in a family when “no one’s watching”, by contrast with the typical photo shoot where people present their best side because “someone’s watching”.
She is currently working on a two different photography coffee table books, one featuring her “ESCAPADES” images, the other depicting humoristic situations in the same spirit as her “N.O.W.” photographs.
While many of her clients could just pick up the phone and get photographed for free by leading magazines and their photographers, they choose her year after year.
Today, she lives in Malibu, California. She photographs part of the year in the Los Angeles area, spends the summer months in Europe where she offers a limited number of photo shoots in London, Paris, the south of France and Italy for both her European and American clients. The rest of the year, she travels the world creating fine art photographic compositions. These very special pieces will be available for purchase on this website as they become available.
For the last fifteen years, in an effort to give back, Marie-Catherine has participated in many charity and fundraising events.