Meet MikEuclide Jean-Baptiste

We recently connected with MikEuclide Jean-Baptiste and have shared our conversation below.

Alright, so we’re so thrilled to have MikEuclide with us today – welcome and maybe we can jump right into it with a question about one of your qualities that we most admire. How did you develop your work ethic? Where do you think you get it from?

My work ethic is imposed by my role as an husband and father. As an artist, I think it could be easy to get carried away by only doing things only when we like to.

But having a family to feed makes me diligent. I also see it as balance. We have to legs, and to walk straight we need both strong. Work ethic ( forcing yourself to do the work) and being creative ( being imaginative, playful and taking your time) are two sides of the same coin that make the currency of art.

Thanks, so before we move on maybe you can share a bit more about yourself?

Hello,

I am mikEuclide, a montreal portrait photographer. I mostly work with entrepreneurs and professionals in my city and surroundings to help them shine a light on their business, their drive and resolve. Most of my clients know that they can only be trusted at face value, and my role is to protect their investment to help them be credible before their clients meet them.

Althought my job seems to be only utilitarian, I truly love it, to photograph a face, a person expressing pride. Since I can remember, I was always drawn to faces, sketching them in notebooks, napkins and even on my desk. Doing my work as an artist also means using tools to get me there as organic as possible, which is the reason why I also use analogue cameras. Analog provides a pattern of thinking that changes the session: making it intentional. It makes me a scientist, working with specific recipes to ensure the development is well done. It also makes me a craftsman, working with my hands and being totall focused, immersed, in my work. It also makes me a student. Questions have to be asked, books to be read. Analog photography makes me a kid again. I’m thrilled with discovering and get to be more care-free, experimenting, and actually complimenting the sitter with the same feeling

If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?

You have to listen to advice by the ones who want the best from you, and act fast on it, so that they will want to keep on mentoring you!
Read as many classics as possible. A few non-fictions are great, but literature is an art of human language, they raise your awareness to the other art forms.
Block the noise, don’t fight it: As soon as something leads you out of your goal, nod with respect and stop listening. Those fights lead to nowhere.

Alright, so before we go we want to ask you to take a moment to reflect and share what you think you would do if you somehow knew you only had a decade of life left?

Thats a hard one, but it’s important to think about it.

I want to be missed as father and husband, which means, I need to improve daily in my relationship with them. I also want my son to be impressed by my achievements, that he is proud of my photos in galeries and magazines and that I would travel with him around the world so that he could have discovered cultures with his own eyes, paid by the camera.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://montrealheadshot.com
• Instagram: Instragram.com/mikeuclidephoto
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikeuclidephoto/

Image Credits

photographhy by : mikEuclide Jean-Baptiste