Patrick Desgraupes is a French photographer renowned for his analog work using a large-format 4x5-inch camera. He published five landscape books between 2003 and 2009, three of them with La Martinière. His work has been exhibited in the United States and seven European countries. He held three solo exhibitions on Iceland in 1989, 1990, and 1992, and sixteen large-format exhibitions with the French National Parks and the Ministry of Ecology between 2008 and 2015. His book on the National Parks won two awards. He participated in a major international group exhibition and auction at Cornette de Saint-Cyr-Bonhams in Paris in November 2016. By switching to digital, he completely changed his approach, diversifying his subjects while focusing on themes that preoccupy him. Light, space, time, and quantum physics are central to his inquiries. He is searching for a poetic language made of visual metaphors.

Contemporary art thrives on layering, reworking, and contamination—processes that define our relationship to the image in the age of technological reproducibility. Within this context, Sylvie C develops a personal language that combines photography, weaving, and visual deconstruction, giving rise to StripArt, a technique that redefines the iconography of our time through the act of cutting and interlacing. Sylvie C's creative process is based on an act of deconstruction and recomposition. Starting with a large photographic print, the artist slices it into thin strips, which are then woven into a new perceptual grid. The result is an image that vibrates between order and disorder, between decomposition and recognition, requiring the viewer's active involvement in its deciphering. The surface, now fragmented, acquires an almost sculptural dimension, where the visual interference between the lines evokes digital glitches, transposing digital language into a manual practice.