Pierrot Men’s images are born from his familiar world, without adornments or mannerisms. He captures the strange signals beamed by ordinary things and transforms the fragments of banality into poetic visions. At home in humanistic reporting, Pierrot Men has been adept at developing his style to very personal variations in which his formal mastery and quality of the perception are molded with finesse. Always on the move, he plays with ease at capturing the light or upsetting the space which he delivers. “The heir without knowing it of Henri Cartier Bresson,” as writes his friend Bernard Descamps, Pierrot men is today a genuine inventor of images and stunning photographs, which confirms day after day his remarkable talent, acclaimed in l994 by the Grand Prix Leica. Annie-Laure Wanaverbecq Maison Robert Doisneau Paris

Pierrot Men

Pierrot Men has an inbred sense of reporting. His eye and his camera catchy simultaneously those moments in life that we never see and which exist only for the photograph. In the streets of Tana or Malagasy villages, Pierrot Men has that capacity of seeing and framing that instant where everything is organized into a photograph. Heir without knowing it of Henri Cartier Bresson, enamored with life and its lights, sensitive to others and their difficulties in living in certain corners of this planet, he realizes his dream: adolescent, with his childhood friend, aware of the misery and hunger rampant in the streets of Tana, they had sworn, in a pact of blood, to become an “artists.” Pierrot is a photograph, his friend a famous painter in Madagascar. Bernard Descamps (photographer)

Born Novembre 21, 1954 at Midongy du Sud (Madagascar), live in Fianarantsoa.

2002 : 19ème Festival des théatres francophones en limousin - (France) 2002 : CMO Boulevard Briand - La Roche-sur-Yon - (France) 2002 : Spazio Oberdan,V - le Vottorio Veneto Milan - (Italy) 2002 : Sag Harbor Picture Gallery - Sag Harbor - (New York) 2001: Contemporary African Art - Rome - (Italy) 2000: Festival Plein Sud-Cozes - Charente Maritime - (France) 2000: Fries Museum of Leeuwarden - (Holland) 2000: MJC Château Coquelle - Dunkerque - (France) 2000: Espace Matisse Lille - (France) 1999: Maison Robert Doisneau - Gentilly - (France) 1999: Galérie Luc Quereyl - Paris - (France) 1999: Lycée Beau de Rochas - Bordeaux - (France) 1999: Espace Richard Ginori Milan - (Italy) 1999: Salon de Printemps - Poiré sur Vie - (France) 1999: Fnac Dijon - (France) 1999: Salon Apollon - Hôtel de ville - Dijon - (France) 1998: Bibliothèque municipale of Dunkerque - (France) 1998: Collective exhibition with several African photographers, Revue Noire at the MEP - (France) 1998: Tour exhibition, South Africa, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Djibouti, Sudan, La Réunion, Seychelles, Mayotte, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Namibia 1998: Carré Amelot - La Rochelle - (France) 1998: Échanges et Synergies - Bruxelles - (Belgium) 1998: Festival des 3 Continents - Nantes - (France) 1996: Artothèque de Saint Denis - (La Réunion) 1996: 2ème Rencontre des photographes Africains - Bamako - (Mali) 1995: Centre Culturel Charles Beaudelaire - Rose Hill - (Mauricius) 1995: Fnac - CNIT La Défense - (France) 1994: Centre culturel Français of Windhoek - (Namibia) 1994: 1ére Rencontre des photographes Africains - Bamako - (Mali) 1992: Galerie La Bohème - Neuchâtel - (Suizerland) 1990: Librairie La Crécelle - Le Puy - (France)

2003 : "Madagascar, la grande ile secrete" - édition Autrement -(France) 2002 : "One day in the life of Africa" - édition Filipacchi - (USA-France) 2002 : Madein Africa Fotografia - édition Epicentro -(Italy) 2001 : Mémoires intimes d’un nouveau millénaire - Edition Eric Koehler 1999: "TSANGA TSANGA", Édition Mollat - Seuil (France) 1999: "Anthologie de la photographie africaine et de l'Océan Indien" Revue Noire - Paris -(France) 1998: "L'oeuil Nomade" - CCF Arthur Rimbaud/L'Harmattan - (France) 1998: "Un parcours photographique", Édition Pierrot Men - (Madagascar) 1996: "Regards croisés" avec Yves Pitchen - Ricardo Rangel - John Lienbenberg 1996: "A l'intérieur d'à côté" avec Phillippe Gaubert - (France) 1994: "Gens de Tana" avec Bernard Descamps, Édition CCAC, Tananarive - (Madagascar)

2000: Honorary Mention-International Photographic Competition on the Environment 1999-2000 (UNEP) Tokyo (Japon) 1997: Médaille d'or aux IIIèmes Jeux de la Francophonie, Antananarivo (Madagascar) 1995: Lauréat du concours Mother Jones International Fund Documentary photography (San Francisco)