Antoine Hulot

"Photography entered my life early through my father, who carried a Minolta film camera with him since his military service, where he was in charge of the photography unit. At home, shelves were filled with albums — his friends, his travels, his military years, and of course our family life with my mother and older brother. I wasn’t yet taking pictures myself, but by spending hours looking through his photographs, I was already — unknowingly — learning how to see.

I bought my first camera at twenty, during a trip to Australia: a modest Lumix compact that I cherished all the same. Like many people, I began with travel photographs meant only as personal memories, never for publication. Back in France, I continued and later bought my first Nikon DSLR (a D5500). Then came studies, a career in another field in Paris, and little by little photography slipped into the background.

Years later, I felt the need to reconnect with a creative practice. I returned to my Nikon, repaired my father’s Minolta — which I still treasure — and experimented with video and drone photography, eventually becoming a licensed pilot. 

In the end, what brings me back to photography, again and again, is the desire to make images that tell human stories — because those are the ones that resonate.

My name is Antoine Hulot. Welcome to my portfolio."