I'm from the North of France and studied advertising in Belgium, in one of the more renowned instutes, St Luc. The school in itself is pretty awesome and looks like Harry Potter's school, the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The choice of getting into advertising came from the fact that I believed it would be the best compromise between art and real life, where art is put to a specific purpose...
Today, I work as an Art Director at the Leo Burnett offices in Paris and combine that with my activities as a freelance photographer. It's pretty much the best of both worlds - on one hand I am bound by a bit of a corporate universe, albeit creative and filled with sparks of inspiration, on the other hand I do what I like when I shoot and work for myself as a photographer. And I definitely do not want to lose the freedom that photography brings to my life. Perhaps, one day, I'll be able to live off my photography projects, but it is not the case for the moment.