I've been working since I was seventeen. I trained as a photo lab technician (color and black-and-white prints), back when an image meant chemistry and patience.

Then came five years as a photojournalist, in conflict zones. After a colleague was taken hostage in Libya, I got scared, and decided to take things down a notch. Little by little I drifted toward film sets. I learned to grade on DaVinci next to the colorist on Dior's commercials, and later took the cinematographer's course at ENS Louis-Lumière.

I've also been hooked on computers since I was a kid. The kind who subscribed to hacking magazines and flashed first-generation PlayStations to run copied games. That curiosity never left. So when a tool I needed didn't exist, or cost more than I had, building it myself just felt like the natural thing to do.

That's more or less what I do now: chase a certain feeling in an image, in software and in hardware.

These days you won't find me on set very often. I've become a woodworker.

In 2026, I won the gold medal at the Meilleurs Artisans de France (France's Best Craftsman) competition in Paris, in the woodworking category. It's a recognition I still find hard to say out loud. I build the cameras the same way I build the furniture. By hand, slowly.

For a project, a question, or just to say hello, write to contact@davidbross.fr.

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