1944, My father sees V1 overflying the skies of the city of Lille.
1951, Robert Frank takes a picture of a young girl in the streets of Paris, that little girl will be my mother, 13 years later.
Most likely conceived on my parents’ wedding night—the very same day Andy Warhol was shooting Sleep.
Born in the 1964th celebration of the massacre of the Innocents.
1986, get in l’École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, which is a bit of a waste of time as the teachers there are "real" photographers.
1988, goes study at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where my teachers are Barbara Crane, Joyce Neimanas, Ken Josephson, Karen Savage and Bart Parker, needless to say that I make up for the time wasted at the Arts Déco.
1990, I am Robert Heineken’s assistant and witness daily miracles in the darkroom.
1991, coming back to France, life’s a bitch and then you die.
1993, mourning my sibling I take on writing for which I demonstrate no natural talent, but do carry on, anyway.
1995, Mai de la Photo in Reims, a first important and noticeable exhibition of my work, which gets censured, the karma.
In June 1995, I leave to work and live in Portsmouth, where I work shift, and do very little beside working shift, sleeping, and working in the darkroom, there is no natural light in England anyway.
1998, Going back to France, I don’t really take pictures anymore, I persevere in writing, improving somewhat, I live on the countryside.
1999, I purchase a personal computer, I learn how to use it while learning to write, and vice versa.
1999: Birth of Madeleine Hannah De Jonckheere.
2000, I am starting to build a website, Désordre. It is hard work, I often burn the midnight oil, it mostly fails, but I keep at it. Birth of Nathan Alonzo De Jonckheere.
In 2002, I receive the multimedia award from the Société des Gens de Lettres—things don’t always go wrong.
2004, birth of Rémi Isidore De Jonckheere, Nathan is finally diagnosed as autist, my father goes under heart surgery, all of this on the same day. As you do.
2009, at the invitation of Mona Chollet, iconographic work for the #109 issue of Manière de Voir (Le Monde diplomatique) : Internet, révolution culturelle, possibly the best thing I have done.
2010 - 2012: Formes d’une Guerre, a multimedia performance with writer François Bon, musicians Dominique Pifarély and Michele Rabbia.
2012: publishing of Robert Frank, in the lines of his hand. Also Philippe, a three minutes long animation movie, a year in the making, for three minutes, don’t laugh.
2013: nothing.
2014: nothing.
2015: nothing, escapes quite narrowly the terrorist attack of November 13th.
2016: nothing much.
2017: A Flight In Egypt, a novel.
2018: Fend Off, a novel.
2019: The Sexual Rapport No Longer Exists, a novel.
2022: I Don’t Remember, a long novella.
2023: Why The Long Coffee?, a documentary film.
2024: Portsmouth.
2025: Raising Goats In An Open Space, a novel.
2026: Camera obscura
2027: The Jellyfishes, a novel (and a life).
2028: The Dimetrodon Goo goo a'joob…, a novel (and a life).
2029-2064: lean to play the up-right double bass, and joins the maquis.
2064: Death by suicide.
