
Independent Media Production, Underwater photographer, U.W Cameraman, Freediving Instructor
Brussels Area, Belgium

Independent Media Production, Underwater photographer, U.W Cameraman, Freediving Instructor
Brussels Area, Belgium
Frederic was born in 1972. Since his childhood he has been in contact with the sea, spending several months a year on the family’s sailboat.
At the age of 10, he discovered free diving. After some years of practice, he became a Padi and Cmas scuba diving instructor and started to teach free diving in 1991.
He set his 1st world record in 1995 and decided to dedicate his life to free diving.
He achieved two more world records in 1997 and 1999. The same year, Frederic passed the100m's mythical barrier on one breath of air. He was the 8th person to do so.
In 2002, he started underwater photography to be able to show the beauty of free diving and the underwater world.
Frederic comes from an artistic background. His grand grand father was a photography’s pioneer in the 1890’ and art collector, his grand father was a painter and his father has been an commercial and fashion photographer during the 60’. His work shows these various influences.
All his pictures are taken in freediving action.
Published in:
Apnea, Chocs, Diver, Diver Japan,Dyking, L'Equipe Magazine, Focus, Hawaii Skin Diver, Melange, Men’s Health, National Geographic, New Look, Nice Matin, Océans, Plongeurs International, Thalassa
Corporate:
IWC Shaffausen, Hamilton Watches, Red Bull, Tahiti Tourisme
Beside uw imaging, Fred is helping scientists for tasks such as shark tagging for telemetry studies. So far Fred tagged successfully scalopped hammerhead shark, galapagos shark, lemon shark, great hammerhead shark and great white shark.
Together with freediver William Winram, he created Ocean Encounters.
underwater photographer
underwater camera opperator
Marine scientists technical support
freediving instructor (AIDA, CMAS, Apnea Academy)
scuba diving instructor (PADI and CMAS)
underwater photography, underwater filming, freediving, sailing, ski touring, architecture, art in general