UT PICTURA is the first large monograph dedicated to Wahib Chehata conceived as a catalogue raisonné, but above all as a work in its own right in the artist’s corpus.

Art critic Clément Thibault captured this consequent «sum» and produced an inspiring text, Le Temps de l'image et des mythes, which accompanies the 300 works in the book. This text deals with the place of the creation of Wahib Chehata in the recent history of photography and how it fits into the historical continuity of pictorial art, at the crossroads of religions, beliefs, the great golden centuries of painting, and recent political history, inherited from colonization or the society of capitalism.