Anne Garde is a graduate of a Master's degree in Sociology from the University of Paris-Sorbonne. She has completed internships at the Parisian studios Arphot and Urphot, and studied at the Ecole du Louvre. She is devoted to the medium of silver photography, and her work seeks to capture what the eye cannot see. Her photography, which includes both color and black and white, is characterized by a tension of light and a transversal style. She has been initiated into the culture of the East through her origins in Bordeaux, and has traveled extensively in Asia to explore intercultural links between the East and West. She has been awarded the Bourse Villa Médicis Hors les Murs for her work on India. In addition to her photographic work, she also creates installations using the 4X5 inches Extralight camera, on natural, urban, industrial and port sites. These ephemeral creations, which she has been photographing for over 20 years, represent a body of work that re-qualifies the history of places that are disappearing, in favor of a new "life of forms.