It’s at a bookstore table that we meet for the first time. Hedi Slimane is not only a photographer. After he studied literature, political science, and art history, he was a talented tailor and today is also one of the most famous fashion designers, in touch with most of the Parisian creators like YSL and Christian Dior. But in fact, I don’t care. The only thing I really care about is his diary. Slimane gives me, with a kind of insulting diffuseness, his diary of large-size shots of an everyday reality that nobody but his acute vision can see. Some of these make me think of the universe of Hunter S. Thompson, a black and white world, sometimes as dirty as a paragraph of Easton Ellis, but more often as bright as the Californian sun.

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There’s a real sense of adventure and exploration about the heavily treated photographic work of French artist Luc Borell, who takes all his photos with camera phone. ‘I take pictures exclusively with the digital camera from my mobile phone, currently a Nokia. I’m not a professional photographer. I find technique dead boring and I have found the simplest, least technical and most practical equipment to be my mobile phone. Apart from that, I’m a ‘cultural engineer’, agent, and art dealer in my spare time. I have always had a passion for art as a global medium. It took me several years to accept that I myself could create and show my work’.