Juan Manuel Fangio told me the story himself the day I took this photo on the Remparts of Angoulême Circuit. The most famous driver of all time had just been caught speeding on the highway.
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These makeshift cabins and huts symbolize our hankering for freedom and adventure. They shelter our childhood builders’ dreams and man’s tools.
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Have I died, camera in hand? What’s that in the viewfinder, an angel come to take me away?
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In 1999, the German photojournalist Thomas Höpler declared : Today’s visually over-stimulated world, this avalanche of stimulation, we created it ourselves through the magazines.
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Ten years after having entrusted the cinema adaptation of Michel Vaillant to Luc Besson, how do I feel now about this movie?
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Marseille, August 2012. Are they fadas, or completely bonkers, the wedding couple, throwing themselves to the water like this?
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Brussels, 1982. In the backroom of his gym on Chaussée d’Ixelles, Jean Claude isn’t yet known as Van Damme.
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As children, we dream of becoming pirates, but what an arduous journey: it’s a big step from the back of the chair to your shoulder!
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January 2000, Niger. Terrorist threats have immobilized the largest rally-raid in the world, the Dakar, at Niamey airport.
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1979, stretch jeans were in fashion but I couldn’t care less about them, because in Isabelle’s bedroom I had other things on my mind.
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Formula 1 Season, 1983. Behind the balaclava, the reigning World Champion. Taming his unruly blond hair, Keke Rosburg closes his eyes and concentrates on the starting line. He’s not thinking about what is to follow.
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Brussels, around 1973. I had received a Kodak Instamatic 133 for my 12th birthday.
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I did my first photo shoot with model when I was 13 years old, in 1974. My father was to start up a new series of comic strips, devoted to motorcycling and whose heroine would be: Julie Wood.
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Marseille, August 2012. Have fallen in love with this little Auffes Valley, a small sea inlet entering the town, hollowing out a small port between the tall houses of the likes more often seen in Sicily, with its tiny fishing boats and its only pizzeria, Chez Jeannot.
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Chiang Dao, Thailand, January 2009. In a small village within the Golden Triangle, “The Cold Festival” lasts five days.
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October 17, 1991, Hoover Dam, Mohave Desert, U.S.A. Enter Arnold Schwarzenegger on location for the movie Universal Soldier. He had arrived by private jet (borrowed from Tom Cruise as his own was being serviced) to say hello to his buddy, Jean-Claude Van Damme.
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