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"THE HEART IN YOUR EYES"

With his intense human sensitivity and Philippe Soupault’s philosophy: "The heart in your eyes," Jean-Luc Mege takes more than just photos. With a very eclectic range of experience from photo-journalism and grand reportage to humanitarian, fashion, and magazine covers, Jean-luc has traveled much of the world. He has shared the lives of the most humble and those in poverty, misery, luxury and even death. His imagery is often used to help the world, in countries in crisis or war. Jean-Luc uses his camera to offer more than just photographs; he wants you to share in the story.
It is not easy to get him to agree to take photos of weddings. He will however agree to take ‘wedding photos’ to tell a story – a story of the day, your story, even better if your story is unique. There are multiple relationships between grand reportage and weddings he hastens to add. “You must be listening and be there in every critical moment. You must behave as a real witness and never change the moment you do not. You must be fast, discreet, know every detail in and out, vary your angles, working in daylight, in the shade or in very special circumstances ... be invisible while being efficient, cheerful, patient (sometimes more than 14 hours non-stop ...). And last but not least highly committed." He concludes with a smile "Failure is not an option!"
Jean-Luc MEGE around the world, covers, illustrates and immortalizes. He has an ability so rare to be able to tell a story through his photographs. The force of the narrative comes from a unique path. Jean-luc is imbued with great empathy, an unprecedented tenderness of his eyes and an innate sense of composition.
He captures your wedding with the same kindness and generosity that drives him when he does his reports through out the world. (His last "strong" experience? Working with the "poorest of the poor" in the slums of Calcutta). The human is at the heart of his career. Discreet, delicate and intense these adjectives apply to both Jean-luc the photographer and to his photographs. Photographs by Jean-Luc MEGE bear within them an intensity and a strong sense of relationship. He uses his talent and knowledge to capture humanity in all of his photographs.

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