A graduate in design from the École des Beaux-Arts de Nancy, Francis Meslet started out as a designer before becoming an artistic director in advertising. He devotes his time to photography in parallel, capturing abandoned sites, creating captivating and melancholic images such as Darling, Go Close the Window from 2017. Like wrinkles on a face, the deterioration of this villa in ruins and the vegetation that invades it, marks the passage of time, but also the perseverance of life.