Thank you for your visit, and welcome on my Web site.
My name is Jean-Luc MEGE, I am 42, French, freelance autodidact and professional photographer.

This site will present you part of my photographic work completed since more than 15 years and I hope it will
hold your attention. As you will see, my main asset remains in my great versatility to treat all kinds of subjects.
My field of predilection being the human, portrait, the report and the press magazine, I had nevertheless to adapt during many years to the requests made by my reference magazine :
the Figaro Magazine ; the fields were as varied as different: people portraiture, portraits of leaders, artists, fashion
photography, food and gastronomy, tourism, architecture, home design, corporate, industry, art, illustrations...
I sometimes accept to cover weddings with a own unique style, photo-journalistic one, which means less posed
photographies and more natural ones...
During 12 years, my only school was that of the ground with only one rule: no right to the error and give the best of
myself on each entrusted subject and assignment. The publication of the magazine depended on it.
(so, failure was not an option)
My pronounced taste for traveling and adventure brought me several times on rallys raids (Paris-NordKapp, Paris-Dakar, Formula One), but it is especially a certain way of seeing things, more humanistic and a real desire to help the others and to change the World, which pushed me several times to be left on grounds war and conflicts such as:
Lebanon (Beirut), Bosnia (Sarajevo), Croatia (Dubrovnik), Iraq or Palestine. I had the great opportunity to follow thus,
during 4 years, one of the biggest french humanitarian association named “EquiLibre”. Once this one disappeared, in 1999, I left to carry out reports on my account with the aim of setting up my own humanitarian association. One of them enabled me to discover one of the last leprosarium, in Akata Djokpé and Nyuiemabou in Togo. A great and nice experience.
As for my magazine (the Figaro Rhone-Alpes), it unfortunately disappeared three months after 911, in December 2001. I decided to proceed in this way as an independent photographer, always with the passion for photography and the willpower to testify of the beauty, but sometimes oh the horrors of our World...
I seek since to develop all forms of collaborations with foreign companies and magazines. These collaborations could take forms as various as : foreign correspondent, photographic exhibition, patronage, direct control of report, etc.
I currently live in New York and Lyon (France), a city located at the heart of France, at only 2 hours train from Paris, Marseilles or Geneva. I work thus in all the Rhone-Alps area which covers the departments of the Rhône, (Lyon) of Drôme, (Valence, Montélimar), of Ardeche, (Annonay, Privas, Aubenas, Vallon Pont d'Arc), of Ain, (Bourg en Bresse), of Savoy (Chambery) and High Savoy,(Chamonix), of Isère, (Grenoble).
I am 1 hour from high tourist places such as Drôme of Provence, Ardeche, Burgundy, the Alps...
Equipped for 7 years in numerical photograph (digital photography), I am able to answer any request quickly in report, as well as in photo final improvements
and transmission via Internet. I can also work in studio for fashion pictures, headshots, formats to 6 X 7 cm, color and black & white. Lastly, I speakFrench, English and Spanish.
If you need to receive any further information, do not hesitate to contact me. I would be glad to answer your requests and to help you.
In the meantime, I wish you a good visit on my web site.
This webpage is only a try before the final version... Thank you for your indulgence...

Jean-luc Mege, Photographer,

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