Thomas Goisque

November was a month dedicated to photography in Paris and there were a lot of vernissages and exhibitions going on around the city. I want to share the works I've seen and liked, either spoted around Paris, or found on the web.

I'll start with Thomas Goisque who is a photojournalist and does photo reportages from all around the world, but mostly Asia and Africa.

He received his education in photography in Paris in 'l’Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs' way after his passion led him to the end of the world. He worked as a photographer of the army and volontarily enlisted in several military missions (see his excellent military reportage from Bosnia here). In 2003 he joined Sylvain Tesson in his long march from the Arctic Circle to the jungles of Bengal and together with his new companion published a book calles: "Under the stars of freedom". He regularly publishes his works in Le Faigaro and had his entries in Le Monde, National Geographic, Paris Match, Géo, Grands Reportages and many others.

I strongly recommand to visit his website and go through all his amazing journeys.
For copyright reasons I of course cannot post the original photos, so these poor screen shots do not reflect much of the stories that he tells through his photography. But I promise you that it is worth a while to have a look on his work, especially if you share his passion for travelling.

Bosnia, Military Patrol on the Mount Igman
Sapa, North Vietnam
Tibet

Djibouti
Madagaskar
Cameroun
Mongolia



On mongolian step with Sylvain Tesson

Salon des vins des Vignerons Indépendants

Paris is famous for it's world leading position in the number of organized congresses, expos, conferences and workshops. Where else, if not in Paris, could you attend such an excellent event as an expo of independant wineyards. I got invitations from my boss Stephane for my friends and me, but anyone can enter paying a fee of 6 euro. More than 500 wineyards exhibiting from all around France and you are welcome to taste whatever you like.

On the entrance they give you a wine glass..

And you can start exploring..

Nikolaus, a greek guy who's doing his erasmus exchange project in my lab, had an ambicious plan to taste all the most expensive champagnes..

We bought a couple of bottles to take home and one to share in place, tired after couple of hours of tasting by little sips...
My choice was a bottle of champagne Michel Loriot Brut Rosé and red wine Morgon, year 2007, from the wineyard owned by the Méziat family.

Special thanks

Forgot to mention: you can watch all the photos from Roscoff thanks to this young man, who lent me his camera. Dzięki Beju! :D