Jean-Luc MEGE : A press photographer based in Lyon: the solution for your
reports in France and abroad.

Hello, thank you for your visit, and welcome on my Web site.
My name is Jean-Luc MEGE, I am 35, French, freelance
autodidact and photographer.
This site will present you part of my photographic work completed
since more than 10 years and I hope it will hold your
attention. As you will see, my main asset
remains in my great versatility to treat all kinds of subjects. My
field of predilection being the report and the press magazine, I had
nevertheless to adapt during many years to the requests made by my
reference magazine : the Figaro ; the fields were as
varied as different: portraits people, portraits of leaders, artists,
fashion photograph , gastronomy, tourism, architecture, home design,
industry, art, illustrations... During 12 years, my only school was
that of the ground with only one rule: no right to the error and give
the best of myself on each entrusted subject. The publication of the magazine
depended on it.

My pronounced taste for traveling and adventure brought me several times on rallys raids (Paris-NordKapp, Paris-Dakar, Formula One), but it is especially a certain way of seeing things, more
humanistic and a certain desire to help the others which pushed me
several times to be left on grounds war and conflicts such as: Lebanon
(Beirut), Bosnia (Sarajevo), Croatia (Dubrovnik), Iraq, Palestine. I had the great opportunity
to follow thus, during 4 years, the French Humanitarian Association “Equilibre”.
Once this one disappeared, in 1999, I left to carry out reports on my
account with the aim of setting up my own Humanitarian association. One
of them enabled me to discover one of the last leprosarium, in Akata
Djokpé and Nyuiemabou in Togo.

As for my magazine (the Figaro Rhone-Alps), it unfortunately
disappeared in December 2001. I decided to proceed in this way as an
independent photographer, always with the passion for photography and images.

I seek since to develop all forms of collaborations with
foreign companies and magazines. These collaborations could take forms
as various as: foreign correspondent, photographic exhibition,
patronage, direct control of report, etc.
I currently live in Lyon, city located at the heart of France, at only 2 hours train
from Paris, Marseilles or Geneva. I work thus in all the Rhone-Alps area which covers the departments of
the Rhone, (Lyon) of Drôme, (Valence, Montélimar), of Ardeche,
(Annonay, Privas, Aubenas, Vallon Pont d'Arc), of Ain, (Bourg en
Bresse), of Savoy (Chambery) and High Savoy, (Chamonix), of Isère, (Grenoble).

I am 1 hour from high tourist places such as Drôme of
Provence, Ardeche, Burgundy, the Alps...
Equipped for 3 years in numerical photograph (digital
photography), I am able to answer any request quickly in report, as well as in photo final improvements and transmission via Internet. I can also work in silver formats to 6 X 7 cm, color and black & white.

Lastly, I speak French, English and Spanish.
If you need to receive any further information, do not hesitate to contact me,
I would be glad to answer your requests and to help you.
In the meantime, I wish you a good visit on my web site.

Best Regards
The photograph

Jean-Luc MEGE.

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