• Artist: Tristan & Lidia
• Medium(s): Photography
• Born in: China, Angola
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Passionate about China, Tristan and Lidia settled in Shanghai in 2004 and commenced their duet as photo-artists. Their vision is intertwined, yet their individual approach is often contrasting. Tristan’s focus is balance and method, which compliments Lidia’s more impulsive style. Their joint creative process is challenging and emotionally charged, yet produces work that is aesthetically beautiful, technically strong and often unexpected.

Born in Angola to a bohemian Spanish singer and a Portuguese businessman, Lidia Serpa has always lived a very bohemian and artistic life. At 18 she traveled to Paris and entered the ‘underground’ scene of artists and musicians. She has been successfully involved in many different creative mediums, and is experienced in fresco restoration, beaux-arts, scenography and new media art. In France she is well known as a Fashion Designer and installation artist and her current focus on photography is a culmination and expression of her creative passion.

Tristan Chapuis was born and spent the majority of his childhood in China, one of the few blond children to be seen cycling the streets of Beijing in the 1980s. After studying Law in Paris Tristan was drawn back into photography and back to China, and in his early 20s spent time in Beijing contributing to ‘Pekin Scenes Vues’, a photographic record of the rapidly changing cityscape of Beijing. Upon returning to Paris Tristan studied at Les Gobelins photography school, and went on to work in commercial photography studios. He feels that photography is the best way of communicating and sharing intimacy, and so continues to pursue this avenue as a photo-artist.

Tristan and Lidia met in Paris in 2004.

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