ROBERT DOISNEAU
was born in 1912, in Gentilly. He was preparing to become a printer, but from 1930, he turned to photography. Between 1934 and 1939 he was the technical photographer of the Renault factory, 1948-51 photographer at Vogue magazine. Similarly to André Kertész, he was taking pictures of the old face of Paris, the people living in it, little stories in a deeply humanist way. He published 50 books, a street was named after him in Arles, on the corner of the French Academy of Photography. After his death a memorial house was pulled up in his birth-town, next to Paris, to present his images, and images taken in the same spirit from all over the world.

BERNARD PLOSSU
was born in 1945, in South-Vietnam. He was educated in Paris. He took big journeys, returning to his home from numerous countries with many good photographs. Photographing Lacandon Indians in the Chiapas jungle, working in New England, shipping on the Mississippi, the Rhone, travelling to India, bringing home images from Nigeria, Marocco, Senegal, Egypt and from who knows where else. Living in Paris and San Francisco at the same time, he is given the most prestigious awards, acknowledgements of photography.