Taufenbach took a Master in Arts and Digital Media at Paris I - Panthéon Sorbonne; Pourtout, a Master in Photography and Contemporary Art at Paris VIII. They have photographed as a duo since "Spéculaire," their first joint project, shown at Paris Photo in 2018.

A residency at the Villa Médicis in Rome produced "Le bleu du ciel": the flight of swallows over the villa, caught and recomposed into checkered patterns.

The project was supported by the Swiss Life Foundation, and works from it now sit in the collections of the Cité de la Musique at the Philharmonie de Paris and the Neuflize OBC foundation.

In print: "Obsession Dietrich" with Éditions de L'Artiere, "Cinémode" with Jean-Paul Gaultier and Flammarion, and "The Age of Collage 3" with Gestalten.

"When the sky is full of swallows, it's a hypnotic aerial dance, and we've used optical effects to recreate the incredible aerobatics and music of these birds' flight"

"Obsession Dietrich" (2022), mounted with Pierre Passebon, built photomontages from photographs of Marlene Dietrich: time and immobility worked over by digital means, in the lineage of Étienne-Jules Marey's chronophotography and the stroboscopic images of Harold Edgerton and Gjon Mili.

"Le jardin qui bascule" (2023), shown at Galerie C in Paris, is made the way they work: by protocols, games, and an exchange of images between the two of them, evolving rather than preconceived. Selected works traveled to the Photo Biennale in Daegu, Korea.

"Swinging Gardens" extends that project on-chain, as a collection of NFTs, which is how their work came to hang here.

Their newest repertoire, "Les Glaneurs," puts the hand at the center of the dialogue: repertoires of shapes composed like alphabets, intimate choreographies of private signs in a square frame.