Portrait nominee

Portrait Serie Title: Brice Kapel- Porto Deguro
Description: Artist Songwriter Brice Kapel wonders in this album about her dual cultural identity. He was born in Togo as his mother, in the village of Porto Seguro, with his real name "Agbodrafo", which was in the 19th century one of the major spots of slave traffic leaving for the Americas, on “the slaves’ coast ".
Arrived in France at the age of 7, his musical culture is mainly constituted of English and American rock groups. He sings in his native language, songs that speak about daydreams of childhood, love, African legends and about those we loved and who have gone.

Patrick Desgraupes is a French photographer. He has trained on the job in different Parisian studios and in labs, in which he acquired an understanding of light, one of the strong traits of his current works. He made photographs of portrait, fashion, decoration, architecture and still life. His work has been published since 2004 at Editions de la Martinière (his book on the National Parks of France gets the second place at the National Tourism Award in 2010 in Paris), in numerous magazines and brochures. He has become a recognized landscape specialist in the 4x5 inches large format camera, and his work has been published in the USA and in 7 European countries. He has made numerous exhibitions in Iceland, Belgium, France for the National Parks of France and the Ministry of Ecology, in Slovenia, on the island of Reunion and in Guadeloupe.His photographs testify to his passion for light.
He currently lives and works in France