Our Story started with a commissioned work. Making a portrait of Patti Smith in the gardens of the famous french publisher Gallimard. During the shooting she pretended to be XIXth Century writer posing for posterity.
Wet plate portraits are full of what Sally Mann calls the intervention of an "Angel of Uncertainty".
Laurent Villeret & Patrick Gaillardin were invited to the 15th Photographic Festival of Vendôme to make portraits.