Born in Paris, Laurent Bichaud was a photojournalist in the 1990s working for, among other press names, Libération, Le Monde and Globe in France, SWITCH and ELLE in Japan. He is a laureate of the Fondation pour la Vocation. He holds an M.A. from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and he graduated from HEC Montréal earning another master’s degree. Some of his pictures are part of the collections of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, the Carnavalet museum and the European Community Fund. He has published a novel and several other books.