His mother has her roots in Bessarabia. He is the brother of the writer Colombe Schneck. Very early in his career Antoine Schneck began to embrace digital photo shooting tools, which he values for their quality and their creative potential. His work thereafter has unfolded alongside series of photographies, reflecting both his trips and his special projects. His work has always been permeated by the people he met along the way. For his portraits with a black background, Schneck always proceeds with the same perspective and technique. Far from reflecting any form of exoticism, his objective is to approach the faces he portrays in the most direct manner. His models are asked to sit down in a translucent tent. Once steady in this neutral setting, and fully protected from any external interference, they shine before theblack background while Schneck operates from outside the tent, invisible to hismodels. Besides his portraits of human faces taken in villages worldwide (or on com- mission), his black-background photographies also include a series of celebrity dogs, commissioned bythe Musée de la Chase et de la Nature, a series on millenary olive trees, sold to private collectors, a series on World War D e soldiers uniforms, exhibit- ed at the top of the Arc de triomphe in Paris, and a series on lying stone figures of the Basilica of Saint-Denis, commissioned byt h e Centre des monuments nationaux. In recent years Schneck has also explored other techniques.