Creative And Live

Christophe Huet is a french retoucher. His work is very interesting and fascinating. He created advertisings for Nike, Motorola, AIDES and the Playstation for example.

A little biography : He first wanted to be musician, playing the piano and the drums but it was to hard for him. So he studied and tried to be sound engineer but the level was very high at Louis Lumiere’s University (Cinema, Photo and Sound). And he finaly passed the photo exam at the same school. He worked in a photo laboratory, as technician processing for photographers like Mondino, Depardon, Koudelka, Salgado. Then he changed to be a printer. As he liked drawing he knew he could gave more as retoucher and asked for changing again. He had to keep on working as a printer and after his work he had to train himself on retouching. He has been retouching now for 10 years. He was looking for a photographer that wanted to give a creative direction to his images thanks to the retouching. He met Dimitri Daniloff 7 years ago, as he was a young photographer. They use to work hand in hand. His main purpose is to make people forget the retouching itself even if it seems obvious because of the singularity of the image. Now he keeps on working as retoucher and manager at ASILE since 2005.

His philosophy : Christophe Huet has a particular philosophy and I think it makes his strength. Listening, availability, patience are the base of his job. He also feels concerned about the images’ impact he retouches. Sometimes, he refuses projects for personal reasons like ads for cigarettes, for junk industrial food, or others that degrade any kind of people. He thinks we have to be responsible for our act, that’s the attitude he tries to have for himself even if it’s not always easy to do. He does not want to say ‘yes’ to everything in the name of money. The artistic part of his job can’t make him forget his responsability. Likewise, he always tries to keep time to offert his job for association that struggle against cancer, smoking, aids, all bad treatment, ecology …

His website is particularly well designed. It is very sober. You can also find a making off of his work. It is like little films that show the evolution of his work.

Written by Romane