Patrick Blin is a French photographer born in 1959. He took his first photographs of small birds when he was 16. A year later he started working in cinema, for companies such as Paramount, Universal Studios and Dreamworks. In 2008 he left the film world to work fully as a photographer.
He worked as a photographer on the set of Nicolas Vanier's film Wolf, shot in Yakutia, in eastern Siberia. His first book, Sur la terre des loups, came out in 2012. In 2014 he published La Vie en rose with Marie Blin.
He discovered Scotland in 2015. His book Pure laine d'Écosse (BLIN plus BLIN, 2024) is about Scottish sheep in the Highlands. He worked on it during several trips to the Highlands and the Isle of Skye. The book has 112 pages of color photographs, short texts by Blin and prefaces by Yann Arthus-Bertrand and Peter May. It is a bilingual edition in French and English.
