Until the end of the seventies Max (1936) made some important series of photographs, of which "Open Passport" is best known. Max is fascinated by the passing of time. He looks for the meaning of life, a search inspired by the desire to live. "Life is a simple, but at the same time a serious matter."

Max is one of the founders of art photography in Canada. While his colleagues from Quebec were mainly busy with social and humanitarian subjects, wishing to capture Quebec's reality in an objective manner, Max was working in an explicitly subjective manner at home and abroad. His work was autobiographical long before autobiographical photography began at the end of the eighties in Quebec.

From 1974 to 1979 Max lived in Japan where he shot more than 1500 rolls of film. After his return to Canada he fell into oblivion for some unknown reason.