The daughter of a draughtsman and illustrator, Sandrine Mulas was born in Lyon in 1972. At the age of 20, as a professional basketball player in the point guard position, she developed her competitive spirit, the sharpness of her eye, and her ability to read movement. Later, working alongside sculptor and painter Patrice Cadiou, she came to understand light and its play, volumes, emotion, breath, and intention — where she took her first steps as a photographer.

Drawn to the human element, she chooses her subjects based on their capacity to exhaust her curiosity about the Other, always with a benevolent, non-judgmental gaze. Her photographic approach finds its strength in the art of portraiture. From her project Rives blanches — in which she portrayed elderly people in rural settings — to T'es toi, a collaborative black-and-white portrait series, she has continuously refined her practice in close dialogue with contemporary social and individual realities. Her quest is the unveiling of the invisible, in a portrait art where "gazes say everything, even when words fall short." For more than 30 years, she has developed an intense, raw, unadorned photography, with heart and eye in alignment — tenderness and insolence intertwined.