Rémi Noël didn’t start photography at the age of 6 with his grandfather’s Rolleiflex, even though he only uses traditional film cameras. He was in fact 30 when he set his desire for images free and produced a few still lifes at his place, in Paris. But it wasn’t long until he decided to leave his Parisian studio for the American far West.

From this very first American journey, he fine-tuned a unique creation process: all year round he conceives his images, sketches them, then, for about ten days, he heads West, cradle of the American civilization, that had become his infinite source of inspiration. Rémi Noël is a poet, a poet who uses images as his main language. His photographs, carrying a deep sense of freedom - that same freedom sought after by most travellers -, brilliantly mingles imagination with reality.

Rémi Noël already published several books of his work and in 2013 he founded “Poetry Wanted”, a publishing company specialized in photography. His “Texas” series triggered the idea to create the collection “This is not a map”, photography publications in the form of road maps that unite a photographer with a location.