François Fleury, born in 1977, is a photographer based in Paris. Graduated with the unanimous congratulations of the jury of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 2003, he settles for a year in Afghanistan. His photographic project "The Blast" ("Afghanistan") obtains the 2004 Young Hope Award Nicolas Feuillate, awarded by Kamel Mennour. The following year, sponsored by Christian Caujolle, he was shortlisted at the World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass for two consecutive years. He then initiated the "Bureau Iso" a photographic workshop on the corporate culture within "the Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations" which led to an exhibition during the "Nuit Blanche 2007" in Paris and a book edited by the "Caisse des Dépôts". He worked as an artist and curator in the collective "La Générale" and exhibited at the "Casa Asia" in Madrid and Barcelona in 2010 and 2011 a collection of portraits of Afghan studios and "The Blast". In 2012, he moved to Uganda to carry out projects in eastern Congo DRC presented in the exhibition "De bile et de lumière" (of bile & light) in 2013. The following year he moved to Fordlândia in Brazil, a city built by Henri Ford in the 1920s whose methods in the heart of the Amazon jungle ended in failure. He then went up the rivers of the Amazon in search of communities cut off from the western world. This experience gave birth to the film "Waimaha" and to the series of photographs "A river's tale" and "Negative forest".