Hello! I am a photographer from Le Mans, France, who does not hesitate to move around everywhere in France and Europe to simply travel but also take advantage of photographic, artistic, or professional opportunities. I’m curious and I love to learn. I have a lot of interests that are linked around history, and of course photography, I love architecture and historical heritage that goes with it!
I am also a fan of film photography, it is something that animates me enormously. More generally I can say I love to travel, and meet new people, one rarely goes without the other after all, and this is what makes the beauty of the trip, the discovery of the other, of a culture at once different but also that we have in common. I also have a great passion that I have had for so many years that I almost forgot to mention it, the urban exploration, it allowed me to discover and photograph relics of the past in Europe, it trained me too travel the roots way.
If you wan't you can see some of my photographies here: https://www.instagram.com/paul_hamelin_photographe/ https://www.instagram.com/urbex_watch/

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I think that Couchsurfing is a way to travel at a lower cost, while meeting other people who love traveling, which can make it possible to discover and learn all kinds of things, on all kinds of topics, i's always rewarding.

Interests

• cats
• architecture
• photography
• technology
• cars
• music
• history
• art
• nature
• film photography
• landscapes
• urbex
• heritage
• industry
• good beers

Music, Movies, and Books

A bit of Tame impala, finally a lot of electro in all kinds, ranging from Daft Punk, Myd, Carpenter Brut.

One book in particular: My van life by Florian Conti, and the opposite, 1984 by George Orwell.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I spend wonderful moments discovering the industrial and oligarch past of Italy and Poland, exploring all kinds of fallen palaces and factories that have been abandoned for decades, to contemplate the ruins of a past I didn't live but that i could almost see, and try to revive it with my images. But it is not necessarily the greatest journeys or the greatest adventures that are the most extraordinary, my last adventure that was exciting happened on the Normandy coast, to photograph all kinds of things at the edges of the cliffs. Things in motion, whether it is the bunkers on the brink of collapse, or the caravans of travelers, it is sometimes the simplest things read that are the most interesting.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can try to teach you more about photography, digital film and printing process. But also architecture, especially contemporary architecture, brutalism, 20th century architecture in general.
But in general I am delighted to learn about all kinds of topics, do not hesitate!

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

France