François Zylberman

From an early age, François moved through the world with a camera at his side.

At fourteen, his father’s Zeiss Ikon became his first passport to the unseen: light, fleeting gestures, and those fragments of life that reveal themselves only to those who truly look.
Cinema drew him in as well, offering another way to sculpt reality. He filmed, experimented, and searched for that delicate point where emotion meets technique.

At seventeen, another revelation awaited him: the sea. He began diving, first out of curiosity, then out of necessity. Water became a refuge, an inner landscape where time slows and colors whisper their own truths.

His studies naturally led him toward the visual arts, but also toward computer science — a world he explored with the same patient curiosity. Graduating from the “Conservatoire Libre du Cinéma Français” in Paris, later becoming an IT engineer and an avid diver, François gradually wove a deep connection between science, nature, and creation.

In 1990, during a cruise in Corsica, a friend handed him an underwater camera housing. The spark was immediate. In that precise moment, his worlds converged: the sea, the light, the technique, the patience, the fascination for living things.
Since then, he has traveled across oceans as one might leaf through an ancient book, searching for faces, textures, and discreet presences. His close-up portraits, macro scenes, and blue‑tinted underwater atmospheres reveal a gaze that is attentive, respectful, almost meditative.

His images invite us to slow down, to come closer, to recognize the fragile beauty of a biodiversity too often overlooked.
François shares a vision of the world where every encounter — fish, coral, or light — becomes a story of its own.