About me
I am a geographer working as cartographer and journalist at Le Monde with the maps and infographics team since 2018.
I work on different subjects and fields, spanning from geopolitics, environment and environmental crimes, climate change, organized crime, conflict and terrorism… I believe maps are amongst the most powerful ontological devices, therefore some of the best tools to communicate and try to understand and explain complex phenomena.
Maps are the ideal interface to visualize complex data, and the role of the cartographer is to make these data understandable and easy to access for the public. They can complement a story or create one. From databases to satellite images, from scientific papers to orally transmitted indigenous knowledge, from OSINT to tracking, the role of the cartographer is to make sense of the information and communicate it in the best way possible to the reader. As a “chef de cuisine”, the cartographer render the information to make it understandable and appetizing.
