[vc_row full_height=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1461472396817{padding-top: 15px !important;padding-right: 15px !important;padding-bottom: 15px !important;padding-left: 15px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”1016″ img_size=”full” css=”.vc_custom_1461941287770{padding-top: 5px !important;padding-bottom: 5px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;}”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1462418550883{margin-top: 5px !important;margin-bottom: 5px !important;}”]On my 6th birthday I received a Kodak 126 camera.
Instantly, it became my best buddy.
A few films later photography became my greatest friend.
A revelation.[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”718″ img_size=”full”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1462418236543{margin-top: 15px !important;}”]©Bernard P.
Chambéry-Savoie-France[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1462418512558{margin-top: 20px !important;padding-top: 10px !important;padding-right: 10px !important;padding-bottom: 10px !important;padding-left: 10px !important;background-color: #e8e8e8 !important;border-radius: 4px !important;}”]Meeting a Mentor
It is fortunate to have a mentor. And more so to work with him.
While working at “Camtec Photo inc. La Vie en Poses! “A customer arrives to develop films:
Hello, under what name please?
Bernard Brault.
What!! Bernard Brault!?!
I drop my pen, take his hand and introduce myself.
“I’ve admired your photos for years, they are fantastic, I recognize your style without even looking at the photo credit.” What an honor and great pleasure.
I accompanied him during several photoreports for his newspaper LA PRESSE.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”717″ img_size=”full”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1462418181978{margin-top: 15px !important;}”]Top © my Dad.
In the Canadian Rocky Mountains.
Bottom © Bernard Brault.com – my mentor.
With my Nikon lense 300 mm 2.8.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1462294509551{margin-top: 25px !important;}”][vc_column][vc_text_separator title=”A FEW HIGHLIGHTS” style=”dotted” border_width=”3″ css=”.vc_custom_1462418695862{margin-top: 25px !important;}”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1462425341062{margin-top: 25px !important;}”]At 18 in Pornic, France I manage a KISS PHOTO shop with a partner.
We developed a three month summer season pictures of summer visitors.
Once back in Canada I attend photography school and obtain a commercial photographer diploma.
1 and 2. I immediately started in the corporate and multimedia, establishment, shows.
Mainly symposia, product launches, national meetings: for large pharmaceutical companies and communications agencies.
3 parallel employee experiences.
Corlab, photo lab for professionals, I was retouching images by hand, called “Spotting”. I left after six months with letter of reference.
Photographer Michel Gontran hired me as an assistant on his mega contract of the year: the wedding dress catalog of the Pronuptia brand.
A fantastic one month experience.
Around 25 I am the manager of a one-minute photo store.
Fotoclik a chain with 22 stores. The branch of which I was involved was second in terms of revenue. An offbeat and rewarding experience.
I left after one year and a half with letter of reference.
A few months later, the owner of 2 photo shops in Old Montreal, ” Camtec Photo La Vie en Poses! ” Offered me a position.
I went from being a customer to being an employee photographer since my contracts had priority. Thank you to Jean Bardaji, without this episode of my life, nothing would have been quite the same.
A superb adventure which lasted two and a half years before I left with a letter of reference.
Soon after I went to work in Switzerland for LE 24 HEURES newspaper in Lausanne.
Press photographer received in an internship. Paid by Canada.
Time was short, a fantastic 3 month journey in German-speaking Switzerland.
Back in Montreal and dedicated, I join the team of photojournalists of THE MONTREAL GAZETTE newspaper as a freelance photographer. Having worked for 5 years, I left.
2004: I am hired by Gilbert Rozon for the cover of the Just For Laughs Festival.
The most exciting adventure of my career lasted 7 years, after which I left “the Just for Laughs group”.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]