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Well educated, well traveled. A french man living succesfully in an english world. I have the world's most amazing daughter, friends and family and thank the universe every day for them.

Present - Supervisor of Photo Services/Press Operations
Working for Vancouver's Olympic Committee to make sure that the Press Photographers covering the 2010 Olympics have the very best experience (and photos) of their lives. Very challenging, very interesting, and working with outstanding people.

2003 - 2007 Director of Photography at Montreal's La Presse, North America's largest French language daily. Voted one of the 10 best designed newspapers in the world in 2007 by the Society for News Design, the paper is very visual, very lively and is one of the very few broadsheets in the world with an increasing circulation figure.

Special Projects: in 2006 and 2007 I created, organized and helped put together the Forespect Boreal Forest exhibition. Photos were taken of the boreal forest across Canada and across the four seasons by local photographers. The results were shown in two major long-duration outdoor shows in Montreal and Winnipeg www.aphovasse.com.

In 2004 I created and curated an exhibition for Montreal's Michel Gravel, an outstanding photographer who has captured 50 years of amazing images mostly in Montreal. A web gallery will soon be up.

From 1998 to 2003 I was Deputy Photo Editor at the National Post in Toronto. The Post was a brand new paper created by the then still very wealthy press baron Conrad Black. I helped set up and run the department from scratch. The paper was voted one of the ten best designed newspapers in the world from 1999 to 2002.

From 1993 to 1998, I was the Supervising Photo Editor working under Mike Feldman for the Associated Press in London. The bureau controlled the photo report from photographers from all over Europe, the Middle East, Africa and parts of Asia. As an Editor, I managed a crew of sub-editors on the International desk just off Fleet Street and traveled extensively to manage the news photo coverage of major news events. In particular I covered Princess Diana's funeral, the first free elections in South Africa, the Rwandan refugee crisis, several bombings in Israel, and many others.

From 1990 to 1993 I was Chief Photographer for AFP/EPA in Moscow. This was during Perestroika under Gorbachev. I built a large team of local, regional and national photographers (this was before the internet...) across the Soviet Union. I covered the very first democratic elections in Russia, the coup of August 1991, the dissolution of the Communist Party, the dissolution of the Soviet Union and Gorbachev's resignation along with several wars in various ex-Soviet republics.

From 1986 to 1990, I was a staff photographer and sub-editor for Reuters News Picture Service, based on Fleet Street in London. I covered events in Northern Ireland, sports all over the UK and Europe, the fall of the Iron Curtain and the Velvet Revolution in Prague among others.

From 1982 to 1986, I was in International Banking for the CIBC in Vancouver.

I received a BA in Anthropology from Simon Fraser University in 1978 and traveled to Europe and India.