Martial Lenoir is a photographer born in 1971, who lives and works in Paris. He has just recently left his workshop in Pantin, located in a vast industrial wasteland, a place bearing the image of the character. He discovers photography at the age of thirty, "by chance", and then acquires his first camera, a Mamiya RB67, which will never leave him. His first three series, La loge des rats (for which he won an award at the European Festival of Nude Photography in Arles, in 2009), Les Garçonnes and Reflets du disorder, are in-depth and studied minimalist stagings where the aesthetic of the boudoir is exacerbated. The model is nude, sporting corsets, boas, beads and garters, displaying a delicate and active pose. With Martial, the model never smiles, beauty and cold, diaphanous, icy, as if to link solitude to introspection, like its light: constantly natural. Like a precious painting, the moment seems captured, but without any dramatic tension.