Mamelle Florent
Photographer at HBL Network
Mamelle Florent
Photographer at HBL Network
Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur
Overview
Work Experience
Photographer
2017 - Current
Photographer specialized in active volcanoes, tribes and ceremonies in remote locations. In November 2016, for the 2016 photo contest, National Geographic shortlisted two of my pictures among the 80,000 pictures submitted. These two photos were chosen from the categories “Landscape” ("Herculean Stove" Nyiragongo - DR Congo) and “Action” ("Sparkeling bombs" Batu tara - Indonesia). Between October 2016 and October 2017, I displayed my photographs on volcanoes in three photography exhibitions in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia). In November 2017, for the 2017 photo contest, National Geographic shortlisted again one of my pictures in the “Landscape “category: "Zeus’s gate" (Kalapana, Big Island - Hawaii). In February 2018, I won the photo contest "International Photographer of the year" in the category Landscape – Professional, with a series of photographies about lava mixing into the ocean in Hawaii. https://iphotographeroftheyear.com/winners-gallery/ipoty-2017/professional/214/landscapes/show/gold-award In March 2018, I was a finalist (10 finalists) in the category "Natural World" of the 15th Smithsonian annual photo contest. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/photocontest/detail/natural-world/ray-of-zeus/ Since fall 2017, I am a licensed photojournalist working for HBL network agency. In January 2018, I covered various news, including the eruption of the Mayon volcano in the Philippines. Again, in May 2018, I covered the eruption of the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii. In September 2018, National Geographic published a 224 pages book ("Volcans", French only) with 200 photographies of volcanoes that I took between 2011 and 2018. I wrote short texts to describe the expeditions to 22 volcanoes around the world. An English version will be released in 2019.
Investment partner
2015
Investment Vehicle set up by serial entrepreneurs investing exclusively in serial entrepreneurs based in New York, Silicon Valley, Beijing, Singapore Hong Kong, Berlin, Stockholm, Singapore and London exclusively within B2B Fintech. Investment in Sharepost, Bluzelle (ICO in January 2018), Paynear, Opentopic, Canya (ICO), Stryking (pre ICO).
Founder and CEO until 2009
2000 - 2009
Founder of Homelidays.com, European leader of holiday rentals direct by owner, in 7 languages. HOMELIDAYS was bought in 2009 by HOMEAWAY, world leader of vacation rentals. At that time, Homelidays generated 500 millions USD of bookings to the property owners. By now, it's probably above 1 billion USD