Hans Silvester, former Rapho reporter, is today one of the last great independent photographers. From the cover of the first Geo to two advertising campaigns for Hermes, Hans is appreciated for his ability to merge among his subjects. Among his favorite subjects are ecology, the defense of the planet, photographs of animals and simple everyday objects. He is world-renowned for his long-term work with the tribes of southern Ethiopia - the Omo peoples - testifying to their ancestral customs just before civilization catches up with them.

Best 60 Chinese Artists Awards since 1949.

Born in 1957, Guan Yuliang is a professor at the Art Institute of the University of Shenzhen. He is above all one of the most famous artists of China. In the 1990s, Guan Yuliang was renowned for the creation of Guowa, a series of sculptures presented at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, which were the subject of numerous international exhibitions.

When a city dweller arrives in the countryside of Provence and that, fascinated, he learns to like it, his life changes. This was the case of our photographer friend. He realized, again Candide, that it is better to cultivate his garden mirror earthly paradise. No need to run after elusive chimeras: Eden was there, before his eyes.
To paraphrase a famous Zen koen: when Denis Brihat looks at the flower, the flower smiles. Just like the humble vegetable, the tree, the leaf or the blade of grass. Thanks to his subtle art, he teaches us how to see nature differently. From simplicity arises the wonder ...

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From an early age, Gilles Desrozier dresses reality with photography. He knows that the best way to escape "the conspiracy of fools" is to make his decor. He likes to leave, come back with pictures like a fisherman with the fish. Photography helps him out of his condition. It's a way of opening doors into the reality that locks us up. He sets his decorations in pieces. He makes theater scenes; a way to disguise the real ...

He knows the demands of his art and loves the discipline he imposes on him.

Known for depicting the female body with sensitivity and lyricism, Sophie Sainrapt is a French painter born in 1960. A protean artist, she embraces different techniques: drawing, ceramics, engraving, linoleum ... With a sensitive look, she sketches a blazon of the female body. Sophie Sainrapt has illustrated numerous works of bibliophily (about Eros and his gardens of delights). Among them we can site: Pasnic editions, Renard Pale and Area ... She signs the illustrations of Paul Verlaine, Jean de la Fontaine, George Bataille, Pierre Louÿs and Christian Noorbergen ... numerous Parisian galleries invite the artist to exhibit on their walls . The artist also embraces a career abroad: she has exhibited her work in Korea, China, Japan and Brussels ...

Anne Vilsboll, a painter and writer of Danish origin, a woman full of energy, has often been inspired during her artistic career. When she paints, she tells a story, often about projects around other artists. What interests him is to see how an artist lives and survives in relation to his art. She is also one of the pioneers of several outstanding artists who, over the past 60 years, have tried to revive handmade paper as a form of contemporary art.

Htein Lin is a painter, visual artist, writer and actor in Myanmar. In 1998, accused by the military junta of political activism, he spent more than 6 years in prison. To resist torture, he develops his art by using bits of cloth, ashes ... everything he can find. After his release, he gained worldwide fame and became a key figure in the art scene. Its many exhibitions in countries around the world are aimed at raising awareness of the political situation in Myanmar and promoting freedom of expression.

A young painter from Myanmar, Khin Zaw Latt grew up in a family of artists, his father was a pianist and his mother was a dancer. He receives numerous awards for his paintings and exhibits in galleries around the world. To share his art and to help the children of his village, he created an art school, the Bamboo Art School. He is known for three of his series: "Buddha", "Moving Forward", "Street People", which questions the future of his country.

Than Kyaw Htay attended the Fine Arts School in Yangon, Myanmar. Originally from Arakan, he is very concerned by the problems of migration and life in the villages that are successively victims of drought and floods during the monsoon.

It shows us the splendor of Mrauk Oo and its abandoned temples and pagodas.

Chuu Way Nyein is a 25-year-old Burmese artist, recognized in Myanmar and appreciated by international collectors. Her work argues for the status of women and women's identity.
Her travels in France and the USA have allowed her to see some similarities in the situation of women, despite important cultural differences, which she illustrates in her series "Synonym of Self".

Rémi Michel is the photographer of the Sorgue.
He was born in Vaucluse in the middle of the 20th century and has always lived in the heart of the Monts de Vaucluse and the Sorgue.
The Sorgue, emblematic river of this country that he knows perfectly is, for this passionate resident, whose family was already living on the banks of the Sorgue under the reign of Louis XIII, an inexhaustible source of inspiration.

Born in 1962 in Illertissen, Alfons Alt is a German artist. Alfons Alt grew up in a family of cabinetmaking-craftsmen, which lead him to develop a taste for art right from his childhood. He settled down in France during mid 80's and became a Freelance photographer. He collaborated with the world of edition and visual arts. This is when he began a training with Jean-Pierre and Claudine Sudre, then with Jordi Guillumet in Barcelona. In 1993, Alfons Alt founded his experimental gallery in Marseille. When he joined the Friche de la Belle de Mai residency, he devoted himself to creating alternative techniques. He has had a genuine interest for the world of edition, Alfons Alt wrote many books, two of which received the European Publisher's Award for Photography. His art work has been displayed in several European galleries and in Egypt since the 90's. Many of them were acquired by several solo and public collections like FRAC Basse Normandie, le Centre mondial de la Paix in Verdun and the Musée d'Aurillac.

Michel Loeb - painter - was born in Saint-Cloud in 1931. Pointillist? Surrealist? Dadaist? Close to all this but nevertheless different, unclassifiable, original, unique ... His works give off a light, a love of colors, absurdity, humor, tenderness and poetics ...

After having crossed professionally several domains (fashion, press, television), Christine Ferrer gradually abandoned these professions to devote herself completely to the plastic creation. The earliest traces of his work are posted objects, pictures glued to the wall and the presence of the same clumsily reproduced body, crosses, signs, religious symbols. Without any academic training, she practices mail art and remains very linked to graphics and typography, with always the same requirement to create intimate messages, signs of affection, traces.

The sculptor Ndary Lo left us in the spring of 2017. He graduated from the National School of Fine Arts in Dakar and continued research on the theme of Man, with as a base material the concrete iron, using the moirures of rust and corrosion of weld spots.
With his "Men who walk", he participated in various exhibitions in Senegal and abroad. Knight of Arts and Letters of the French Republic, he has won several prizes and distinctions, including twice, the Grand Prix Léopold Sédar Senghor of the Biennial of Dakar in 2002 and 2008.

Patricia Dupuy and Bernard Soria, co-publishers at Renard Pale, create unique artists' books by allowing the meeting of a writer and an artist in an exceptional setting.
Each book is numbered and signed by the authors and artists.