Joel Cartier stages visual spectacles full of explosive power. Whether it is photography or a moving image, in his pictures even the smallest little details are charged with a fantastic energy. The result are modern heroic dramas that live up to their classical models. Every moment is an adventure, and with Cartier, life itself becomes an amazing stage.
Joel Cartier was born in 1984 in Paris and moved to Switzerland when he was four. There, he finished his studies and training with the best grades possible, and then worked initially in the editorial and advertising fields before becoming a free-lance photographer and filmmaker. Since then, he has been traveling the world, preferably in Asia, and is always on the lookout for the right places to pursue his adventurous hobbies like flying, diving, and base jumping. What he experiences there finds its way in his work for clients including Jean Paul Gaultier, SWATCH, BMW, Paris Hilton, Nivea, Schwarzkopf, and Ed Hardy.