Bruno Sassarone, born in 1975, lives and works in Paris. He holds a master’s degree in law, but interrupted his legal career after winning Photo magazine’s 2005 Canon Prize and the Front Cover Prize of the January/February 2006 issue. Since 2008, his work has been exhibited in galleries in Paris and Brussels. As a competition winner, his work was included in exhibitions in Paris, at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in 2008 (SFR Jeunes Talents), and in Saint-Tropez in 2019 (Fondation Mécénat Chirurgie Cardiaque). Studio Harcourt Paris held an exhibition featuring more than sixty of his photographs, in 2022.

Aurore Clément is a French film and theater actress. She was discovered by Louis Malle and has posed throughout her career for some of the world’s leading photographers, such as Peter Lindbergh, Richard Avedon and David Bailey. A book of her photographs taken by Peter Wyss, Une femme sans fin s'enfuit, written by Mathieu Terence, was published by The (M) Editions in 2002. Aurore met Bruno Sassarone at one of his Paris exhibitions and kindly agreed to preface his book on Paris, as a token of her friendship and interest in his work.