

Mon marchand de delicatessens
Niger, 2003. Je visite le marché de Niamey et un étal attire mon attention. Un homme vend des criquets séchés! Un amoncellement...


Surprise au contrôle de Konni
Niger, 2005. Le mois de mai n'est vraiment pas le plus approprié pour voyager dans ce pays. Température étouffante atteignant souvent...


Lost in the Iguidi erg
In 1989, along with several colleagues from CIRAD, we had to travel in the Tamesna, in the northern saharian Niger, to study habitats and...


A famous locust organization of the past
In 2005 in Zinder (Niger), I accompanied a PhD student working on the Senegalese grasshopper. I had to visit its field stations located...


Across the Sahara
These pictures were taken in November 1989, during a crossing of the Sahara, from Niamey to Rabat. I had just spent two months in Niger...


My first boss
In February 1991, Jean Roy in front of the famous In N'Gourène tree in Tamesna, Niger (18° 1'971 N - 5° 18'489 E). At that time, I'm in...


Training on sahelian grasshoppers
In 1983, I’m with my first class of students in plant protection within the AGRHYMETRegional Centre in Niamey. Created in 1974, AGRHYMET...


The famous Desert locust
One of my first shots of the Desert Locust Schistocerca gregaria (Forskål, 1775), in the sand dunes of erg Iguidi, in the Tamesna,...


Looking for Desert locust in the Sahara
February 1991, using one of my first GPS in Northern Niger, not far from In Abangharit, in the Tamesna area. During a field trip to study...