Les plus beaux clichés du photographe de VTT Jean-Baptiste Liautard

Photographer specialized in the world of mountain biking, Jean-Baptiste Liautard has worked with the biggest names in the discipline. Here are his most beautiful images.

Some outdoor sports photographers specialize in specific disciplines, like Jean-Baptiste Liautard, who works almost exclusively in the world of mountain biking. He has been working with the Commencal brand for several years. "I travel the world to photograph new bikes, experience adventures and tell the story of some of the riders", he explains. "Over the years, I've taken countless photos. In particular, he is the author of many of the shots taken with the Private Sport Shop ambassador. Kilian Bronincluding the two below, which he then comments on.

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"After waking up at 5am on our sailboat, we had to get to the top of this hill for sunrise. Climbing the equivalent of a 100-meter-high sandbox in the middle of the night and rain was certainly not the best strategy for a ride shoot, especially when you're expecting good light for an early morning session. Once we reached the top of this pumice quarry, we had a few minutes to breathe before the sun finally showed itself beneath the clouds. It was still raining and rainbows began to appear. The blue sea in the background is not a lagoon, but its color is due to the white pumice sand running down from the quarry to the water. I took this photo after Kilian's first descent down the hill. He was coming back up for another, out of breath, on uneven ground that could collapse at any moment."

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"This picture makes me smile every time I look at it, probably because we were laughing so hard all the way to our shoot location. We were in the Aeolian Islands with Kilian Bron last December, and our only means of transport and hotel was a sailboat. This meant we had no way of getting to the shooting location. So we had to walk, hail cabs or, better still, hire scooters. The trail we were about to shoot at sunset was on the other side of the island. We were running late, so the only way to get there on time was to pull Kilian with one of the scooters, which was already pretty heavy with 2 guys each carrying a camera bag. We weren't as fast as it looked!"