Alain Sebe Images: Who Are We?

Alain Sèbe Images has been publishing extensively high-quality pictures of the Sahara desert since its creation in 1978. Its first large format picture book, Tagoulmoust, was said to be the forerunner of travel photography and Saharan imagery as a genre, especially in France and in Germany. The publishing house was founded by the French photographer Alain Sèbe as a consequence of the major publishers’ reluctance to invest in such an imposing photographic book about the desert bearing a title in the Tuareg language. The first attempt proved to be successful, and Alain Sèbe gained a reputation as a first-rate photographer of the desert, where he has been travelling for more than 35 years. His son Berny Sèbe is now co-author of the majority of his works.
Their publications, which rely upon the Sèbe picture library, cover a wide variety of subjects related to the Sahara, including the Tuaregs, rock art painting and aerial views. About twenty books, most of them translated into German, Italian or English, constitute a photographic encyclopaedia of the Sahara and its inhabitants.
Calendars, cards and posters bring the magic of the desert to the walls of hundreds of thousands of homes in Europe.


	Welcome to the magic of the desert!

		Alain Sèbe Images has been publishing extensively high-quality pictures of the Sahara desert since its creation in 1978. Its first large format picture book, Tagoulmoust, was said to be the forerunner of travel photography and Saharan imagery as a genre, especially in France and in Germany. The publishing house was founded by the French photographer Alain Sèbe as a consequence of the major publishers’ reluctance to invest in such an imposing photographic book about the desert bearing a title in the Tuareg language. The first attempt proved to be successful, and Alain Sèbe gained a reputation as a first-rate photographer of the desert, where he has been travelling for more than 35 years. His son Berny Sèbe is now co-author of the majority of his works. Their publications, which rely upon the Sèbe picture library, cover a wide variety of subjects related to the Sahara, including the Tuaregs, rock art painting and aerial views. About twenty books, most of them translated into German, Italian or English, constitute a photographic encyclopaedia of the Sahara and its inhabitants. Calendars, cards and posters bring the magic of the desert to the walls of hundreds of thousands of homes in Europe.
Alain Sèbe



Berny Sèbe


Alain Sèbe Multiple award-winning photographer Alain Sèbe graduated at the College of Applied Arts in Vevey, Switzerland, in 1961. He then set up a professional studio in Nice, France, and discovered the Sahara desert in five years later under the auspices of the Ministry of Tourism of the newly-independent Algerian government. This commission started a love-affair with the greatest desert of the world. In 1978 he sold his studio so as to create his own publishing house dedicated to the desert. His picture library, which covers Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt, is considered the largest archive of artistic photographs on the subject. His work has been awarded prizes by Kodak Germany, the Council of Paris and the French Academy, among others.			Berny Sèbe Berny Sèbe (b. 1978) has been associated to his father’s activities since he was a baby. He took his first shots aged 8, and soon found himself addicted to his camera. His involvement in the paternal business increased to such an extent that he became closely associated to every project, while still in his early teens. Considering photography part of his heritage, he graduated in History, Geography and Literature in France, Spain and the UK. He recently completed a doctorate in Modern History at the University of Oxford. After a year in the University of Durham (UK) as a temporary Lecturer in African and Imperial History (2007-8), he is now a permanent Lecturer in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies at the University of Birmingham (UK). More information on his personal page.