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Thanks to all of you who watched my online show yesterday! We have sent many invitations (registered, regulars, on request, newcomers…) and almost everyone could make it and connected to the server. The live feed went fine and I appreciate the many questions you asked me. Most of them were very specific and made me realized there are some experts concerning my work. This online show was a great experience for me and I suppose it was for you too, from the many emails I received. In the coming days, the necklace that was shown during the show will be on sale on my Official Website and one of the artwork from the Sama in the Sky New Series will be published on The World of Sama Art Website; the artwork was the one most voted by you during the show. As for the necklace, it is a very limited edition…⇒ READ MORE

In February I presented you my last work, the ‘Movie Stars’ series of portraits (Cary Grant, Angelina Jolie, Sean Connery, Marlene Dietrich… Samazed!). Since then, you commented abundantly about this series and I received a lot of emails; so I think it is time to show you one of these portraits. I chose an Austrian-born German actress who also held French citizenship: the great Romy Schneider. This May is the 27th anniversary of her death, so I thought it would make sense to publish her portrait. She was one of the most beautiful women in the world (and still is to me) and one of the greatest actresses of all time (yes, I mean it). If you ever had the chance to see one of her movies, then just pick one: The Swimming Pool with Alain Delon, César et Rosalie, Le Vieux Fusil with Philippe Noiret, The Woman Banker, Max…⇒ READ MORE

Last year, in December, I launched the ’60Signers for the 60th Anniversary’ initiative, and for almost two months, I have been busy meeting with every single signer who accepted to support this initiative (and they are 60!). I will come back to you with some new information about it soon, but if I mention the initiative in this post, it is because the end of 2008 was a very busy time for me. Between two meetings with amazing people fighting for Human Rights, I was working on the last portraits of my new series titled: ‘Movie Stars’. There are a lot of actors and actresses I appreciate and the hardest thing was not to samaze them.; I explain. I got the inspiration but what was hard was to make a choice between them: ‘Who will I samaze?’ Usually, my series count 4 (like the U.S Presidents Series) to 8 portraits but this…⇒ READ MORE

Updated on June 09: Initiative fulfilled, read Blog post – Read the press release December 10th marks the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and a series of events will take place -almost- all around the world. More than ever, human rights and fundamental freedoms have to be respected but sixty years after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was signed at Palais de Chaillot in Paris in 1948, the landmark U.N. document still is sadly not respected fully around the world. This Declaration sets basic minimum international standards for the protection of the rights and freedoms of the individual and I think this 60th anniversary gives to each one of us the opportunity to mobilize ourselves and support it. I have been following the amazing work done by The Elders and their actions in Zimbabwe, Cyprus, Sudan, so I decided to humbly contribute and support…⇒ READ MORE

Two years ago, I decided to work on a portrait of Barack Obama. At this time in France, he was barely known as the Senator of Illinois, with almost no chance to win the Democratic presidential nomination against Hillary Clinton. His portrait was part (and still is) of a series of mixed media work (photos and drawings) I started in 2006 called: U.S Presidents (a.k.a the ‘U.S past and wanna-be Presidents’), including JFK, Al Gore, Bill and Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama (JFK, Gore, Clinton and Obama into the Sama Family). Four different portraits, each personality pictured as seen through the World of Sama glance. The portrait of Barack Obama is part of that series, and it was never meant to politically ‘support’ the Democratic candidate to the White House. But if my approach wasn’t strictly political, Obama definitely inspired me, as well as the other personalities pictured in the…⇒ READ MORE