Patrice was born in 1951, in Roubaix, an industrial city of North of France. He came in Taipei in 1979. In his youth Patrice loved drawing and engraving. Unfortunately, his professional work kept him away from his passion. In 2005, he received as a birthday gift his first camera, a small Coolpix. It opened the door to the digital world.

In 2007, he started to seriously thinking about preparing his retirement and considering photography as the perfect hobby to reactivate his appetite for graphic arts.

Patrice is self-taught and has been particularly influenced by Sebastião Salgado whom he greatly admires for the precision, accuracy and poetry of his work, even in the most dramatic scenes. His love for the black and white was also influenced by Salgado. He likes particularly the "chiaroscuro", so popular among Flemish painters, which reflects a timeless interior of the house you have