François Bellabas is a graduate of ÉSAL ­– Metz ­and ENSP. His works have been presented as part of Art-o-rama (Marseille, 2017), the Biennale de l’Image Possible (Liège, 2018), Young Creation (Paris, 2020), 100 % L'EXPO (Paris, 2021), Rencontres d'Arles (2021), Palais Augmenté 2 (RMN-Grand Palais, Paris, 2022), Plat(t)form FotoMuseum Winterthur (2022). A winner of the CPIF residency programme, he has been working on the Escape from L.A. project since 2018, also supported by the Cnap and the CNC (DICRéAM). A technophile and engineer at heart, François Bellabas weaves links between the different levels of reality produced by and derived from the photographic medium and questions the image as data.