Christophe Clark was born in France in 1963. He grew up next to photographers (father, uncle and brother) and opened his own studio in Paris when he was 20 years old. In 1995 he showed a great interest in digital photography .

Virginie Pougnaud was born in France in 1962. She moved to the USA in 1987 where she followed classes at the Parson School of design and the Academy of fine Arts, both in NYC. She moved back to France where she met Christophe Clark.

They started working together in 1998, mixing photography and painting with digital help.
Miniature sets and paintings are made and photographed in their studio in Paris as well as the shooting of the models, Digital Retouching comes along in order to place the models in their settings. The result is strange but probable. It is not anymore a photo, not a painting and the settings have lost their scale.

Clark and Pougnaud's pictures evoke Solitude, which inhabits any human being confronted to life.
It looks like a frozen instant of isolation; no matter how many people appear in the picture.
Atmospheres are essentials. They take the models round make believe miniatures worlds. Each time a character is performing a slice of life. Their work is mixing classical photography, digital retouching, sets construction and painting.