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June 2025 Highlights

Post author:Jeff Chane-Mouye
Post published:July 15, 2025
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Given my chronic lack of inspiration to write a Blog, I’ve decided to share with you the photos I consider the most interesting from the previous month. A few years ago, I also did this in the form of a slideshow. At the moment, I don’t think I have enough photos to put together a slideshow … I’m going to try to be regular over the next few months to keep this monthly rendez-vous going. So let’s start with June, which saw me take very few photos. I was saved by an outing to the Grand Boucan, the annual mega-carnival that attracts a lot of people.

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Oops Baby I did it again

Post author:Jeff Chane-Mouye
Post published:June 23, 2025
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It’s perhaps a bit shameful to confess it, but I listened to and loved this Britney Spears song back in the day. I wasn’t very young at the time (25), but the clip was very catchy, with a concentration of American pop culture in just over 3 minutes. Our schools in France have absolutely nothing in common with American schools, with their lockers in the corridor. It’s a cliché that comes up a lot in American films and TV series. To come back to the song, there have been many covers of it by many artists. You can listen to Travis’ cover here.

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Reigniting my Street Photography

Post author:Jeff Chane-Mouye
Post published:May 17, 2025
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Since I came back from Vietnam, almost 3 months ago, I haven’t been very assiduous about street photography. I’ve had a lot of things to sort out and taking photos wasn’t really high on my list of priorities. As is often the case, the less I do, the less I want to do. Didn’t I miss it? Yes, a little, but as on my trip to Thailand, Vietnam was such a photographic orgy that I was still full of it, even weeks after our return to Reunion Island. I’ve only shown you a tiny part of what I did there. Between the purely street photos and the ‘family’ photos, I really photographed until I was sick of it. Which probably explains the diet I subconsciously imposed on myself when I got home.

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Fuck off YouTube

Post author:Jeff Chane-Mouye
Post published:May 8, 2025
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It’s been nearly 3 months since I last posted a photo slideshow on YouTube. The last time was when I came back from holiday in Vietnam. YouTube was still my last link with social networks. After leaving Facebook and Instagram in quick succession over 5 years ago, I’m slamming the door on YouTube this time. OMG shake YouTube! Jeff’s leaving!

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Ricoh meets Fujifilm

Post author:Jeff Chane-Mouye
Post published:March 16, 2025
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What an enigmatic title! What these two brands have in common is that they are closely linked to Street Photography. But they’re not the only ones. There are also other iconic brands like Leica. If you see a street photographer in the street, chances are they have a Leica, Ricoh or Fujifilm. Leica is a benchmark for photojournalism and street photography. Ricoh’s GRs were made popular by a certain Daido Moriyama. As for Fujifilm, they are the latest to appear on the very juicy Street Photography market. The X100 series, which came onto the market in 2011, needs no introduction. Fujifilm was largely inspired by the Leica M for its X100 series. There are other brands, of course, but these three clearly dominate the market.

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What makes a good photograph ?

Post author:Jeff Chane-Mouye
Post published:February 23, 2025
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April 2018. 7 years ago, John Harper and I decided to each write a Blog on the same subject. Form versus Content. You can read the post here. John is a photographer I really like. As well as being a very good photographer, he’s also someone who could be described as erudite when it comes to Street Photography. Even if, as he says, his blogs sometimes go off in all directions, there’s always something in them that’s directly or indirectly related to Street Photography that gives food for thought. For me, his prose is at least as good as his photos (he’ll tell you that his work is crap… Don’t believe him!). He’s also one of the few photographers I was able to meet in person when I spent ten days or so in Bristol (UK), not far from the city where he usually works: Bath. We’d talked about the idea of writing again, not really four hands, but each working on a common subject.

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Make your own luck

Post author:Jeff Chane-Mouye
Post published:February 8, 2025
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OMG, a second article written so quickly! Don’t get carried away, I’m about to fall back into my usual torpor and I’ll spare you my mindless posts … The thing is, following a brief exchange with John on my previous Blog, I had the idea of writing something.

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A glimpse of Vietnam

Post author:Jeff Chane-Mouye
Post published:February 6, 2025
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1500 photos. That’s roughly the number of photos I brought back from my recent trip to Vietnam. It’s just enormous. I’m talking about the photos I processed in Lightroom. As for the number of photos I took there, multiply that figure by 5. Yes, you’re not dreaming, I must have clicked the shutter more than 7,000 times. In just one trip, my Ricoh GR3 got a bit old …

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Good Morning … Reunion !

Post author:Jeff Chane-Mouye
Post published:January 25, 2025
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I know you’ve probably been waiting to see the photos I took in Vietnam during our recent trip, but I thought it would be a good idea to start 2025 with a few photos of the streets of Saint-Denis, where most of my work is done. It’s not even a week since we landed after a journey of almost 24 hours through the airports of ConDao, Saigon and Bangkok. I’ll come back later on to this trip, which went beyond my expectations. Not only in terms of the places we visited, but also photographically speaking.

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Last Blog of 2024

Post author:Jeff Chane-Mouye
Post published:December 31, 2024
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We’re in the middle of preparations, not for New Year’s Eve 2024, but for our imminent departure for Vietnam! On the evening of the 1st, we head for Bangkok before catching a connecting flight to Saigon. The journey will be a little long, as we’ll be in transit in Bangkok for almost 9 hours… You know when you’re looking for the cheapest plane tickets possible, you’re prepared to put up with lousy waiting times to make a few hundred euros. That was back in May when I bought the tickets that cost us over €5500 (!!!). Today I’m thinking that I should have dropped the extra €200 or so to avoid having to wait 9 hours in Bangkok. A lesson to remember for next time…

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