He won the Bourse de Recherche Louis Roederer sur la Photographie (Louis Roederer Research Scholarship in Photography) in 2006 and is currently organizing an exhibition on the French calotype at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. He is the author of L’Image sans qualités. Les beaux-arts et la critique à l’épreuve de la photographie. 1839–1859 (Monum, 2006).