Beneath an end of monsoon sky, a long tail boat breaks through the silence and the Indian Ocean, adorned in a tasteful orange which complements the blue-green monochrome of the elements.Photograph from the «Mycophotographies» series(2004)

**The artist: Jean-Marc Bernard**

Born in Monaco, Jean - Marc Bernard studied biologic oceanography. Impassioned by photography, he abandoned, in 1997, his scientific career and created in 2001 theBebop Jazz Galerie, a cultural space and an associative that mixes the arts and jazz. He also has worked with the designer, David Cohen on illustrations, creating a cohabi-tation of drawing and photography for the Grimaldi Forum of Monaco. The last three years will be consecrated to travel and reporting photography (Asia, Vietnam, Haiti) in a perpetual quest for new inspirations. His own photo agency ' Realis ' debuted in Monaco in 2005. In 1998, he took a series of photographs united under the title Une exploration du vieux Nice (An Exploration of Old Nice) then collaborated with the company Act’Libre (Nice) on a theatrical project ' La Mastication des Morts ' (The Mastication of the Dead) by P. Kerman. In 2002, he created with David Cohen the series ' Les Pousse Cailloux ' (The Grunts) and effected numerous expositions at Nice, Cannes…