“Emergence”
(Editions Bessard, 2026)
Softcover on Risopaper
21x30cm
36 pages
ISBN: 978-2-491052-49-2
Limited Edition of 250 copies
Signed
Shot over a twenty-year period, all the photographs in “Emergence” book represent a collection of animals never before seen in print. 
Text from Pierre Bessard (Editions Bessard):
“Emergence” is the first number of The 11 Collection. I start from a simple observation: art photographers often operate within a restricted circle, with their own codes, networks, and references. My work with The 11 consists of intentionally making them step outside of it.
The idea is to create a direct encounter with the world of entrepreneurship. It is a very different world, but one extremely rich in tensions, decisions, contradictions, and narrative potential. Entrepreneurs are not abstract subjects: they are people who act, who take risks, and who deal with reality every day.
I therefore bring a photographer and an entrepreneur together. They talk to each other. Without a predefined artistic objective. Without an imposed theme. From this conversation emerges a human quality that guides the entrepreneur's actions. It is from this lived reality that the photographer works.
This displacement is essential. The photographer no longer looks at their own environment. They confront a different rhythm, different constraints, and another form of engagement. Entrepreneurship then becomes an unprecedented field of exploration, full of visual and human potential.
It is with this perspective that I launched an entire collection with Newfund, which opened its network to me. This collection, The 11, does not seek to aestheticize entrepreneurship, nor to intellectualize photography. The project creates a common space where two worlds meet, interact, and produce something authentic, anchored, and concrete. It is this connection that interests me: taking each person out of their natural sphere to bring forth new ways of seeing, understanding, and acting. 
Design by Thibault Geffroy.
Text by Joseph Rutakangwa.
This edition is limited to 250 copies.