Resume

Franck Mée
129 bou­le­vard Thiers
16000 Angoulême

E‑mail : franck at h26.me
Phone : (+33) 632 27 79 32
Born on Novem­ber 27th, 1980
CIJP n°112319 from 2008 to 2016

Current occupations

• since July 2016: trans­la­tor for Eyrolles publi­sher. French ver­sions for: 
  • 52 Assi­gn­ments: Tra­vel Pho­to­gra­phy by Anto­ny Zacha­rias (2021)
  • The Heart of the Pho­to­graph by David duChe­min (2020)
  • Get the Pho­tos the Others Can’t by Michael Free­man (2020)
  • This is How You Make a Movie by Tim Grier­son (2020)
  • 52 Assi­gn­ments: Ins­ta­gram by Adam Juni­per (2020)
  • How I Make Pho­to­graphs by Joel Meye­ro­witz (2019)
  • Within the Frame, 10th Anni­ver­sa­ry Edi­tion by David duChe­min (2019)
  • 52 Assi­gn­ments: Expe­ri­men­tal Pho­to­gra­phy by Chris Gat­cum (2019)
  • 52 Assi­gn­ments: Street Pho­to­gra­phy by Brian Lloyd Duckett (2019)
  • The Advan­ced Pho­to­gra­phy Guide by David Tay­lor (2019)
  • Retro Came­ras by John Wade (2018)
  • The Soul of the Came­ra by David DuChe­min (2018)
  • In Came­ra by Gor­don Laing (2017)
  • Black & White Pho­to­gra­phy by Michael Free­man (2017)
  • Archi­tec­tu­ral Pho­to­gra­phy by Adrian Schulz (2016)

• since March 2019: free­lance trans­la­tor for Le Monde
• since July 2016: free­lance writer 
  • Chas­seur d’I­mages, month­ly maga­zine about photography
  • Drone Mul­ti­ro­tor, bimes­trial maga­zine about drones

• since May 2016: free­lance trans­la­tor, wri­ter and ana­lyst for pho­to­gra­phy industry

Volunteer work

• since 2014: proo­frea­der, trans­la­tor and wri­ter, CFPA News (Cali­for­nian aerial fire­figh­ting newsletter)
• since 2007: wri­ter, Aéro­bi­blio­thèque (French aero­nau­tics books reviews)

Previous works

• Decem­ber 2016: one-shot article in Info-Pilote (offi­cial month­ly publi­ca­tion for the French Aero­nau­tics Fede­ra­tion), rela­ting the “Bal­tic Tour” my aero-club organized

• Octo­ber 2016: co-wri­ter for Drôles de zings by French plane cari­ca­tu­rist Jean Barbaud

• ear­ly 2016: 2 month stand-in for a lea­ving jour­na­list, Les Numé­riques, connec­ted house department
  LED ligh­ting and blue­tooth bea­cons reviews, news sto­ries, tech­ni­cal papers

• 2013–2015: head of came­ra reviews, Le monde de la pho­to (French month­ly maga­zine and web­site about pho­to­gra­phy) and Work­flow (quar­ter­ly maga­zine about mana­ging, edi­ting, prin­ting and publi­shing pho­tos and videos)
  came­ra tests and reviews plan­ning and wri­ting, news sto­ries, tech­ni­cal papers and tutorials

• 2007–2012: jour­na­list, Les Numé­riques / Digi­tal Ver­sus (French-based web­site tes­ting came­ras, smart­phones, TV, com­pu­ter acces­so­ries, etc., 200 000+ rea­ders a day in France) 
  • 2010–2012: head of camera&photo department
    came­ra tests and reviews plan­ning, mana­ging wri­ter, mul­tiple wri­ting for web and prin­ted publi­ca­tion (in French “Image magazine”)
  • 2008–2010: photo&news wri­ter
    wri­ting news about pro­ducts, tech­no­lo­gies and mar­ket, came­ras reviews (both in lab and gene­ral use), how-to and tech­ni­cal explanations
  • 2007–2008: news wri­ter, reviews re-writer
    wri­ting IT news, re-wri­ting and adap­ting reviews for prin­ted publi­ca­tion in French “Micro Actuel” magazine

• 2003–2006: edu­ca­tio­nal and dor­mi­to­ry super­vi­sor in junior and senior high schools

Working knowledge

• Win­dows, GNU/Linux and Android ope­ra­ting sys­tems, web/FTP, Google tools, After­Shot Pro, Gimp, office tools…
• pro­gram­ming lan­guages basics (HTML, JavaS­cript, PHP, SQL, C, Perl)
• lan­guages : native French, wor­king English, basic Ita­lian and Japa­nese (can write in French or English)
• English-French trans­la­tion

Educational background

• 2006 : English-Japa­nese forei­gn lan­guages 3rd-year degree, Gre­noble 3 university
• 2001 : com­pu­ter science 3rd-year degree, Gre­noble 1 uni­ver­si­ty, with distinction
  trai­ning per­iod in hete­ro­ge­neous sys­tem images management
• 2000 : com­pu­ter science DUT (tech­ni­cal degree), Gre­noble 2 university
  trai­ning per­iod in concei­ving and pro­gram­ming a socie­ty’s website

Miscellaneous

• pho­to, espe­cial­ly car ral­lying and air shows
• cine­ma enthu­siast and occa­sio­nal reviewer
• sports : clim­bing, swim­ming, moun­tain biking, horse riding, running
• dri­ver’s license and pri­vate pilot’s licence (Airplane/SEP)