Two years later, after a one-year trip to the United States and Mexico, Lepage joined the photographer's assistant team of the Marie Claire magazine studio in Paris.

[11][12][13] Lepage is a great admirer of the painters Albrecht Dürer, Diego Velázquez, Kandinsky, Picasso and Braque,[14][15] and his photographs reflect his love for painting.

His hands-on in the gelatine, like a paintbrush in oil and pigments, the photographer reconstructs the body's anatomy, cutting the negative to build a new, multiple image.

[16] The character's individuality emerges and creates an oscillatory wave that disturbs the peaceful surface of the image, causing it to waver between seduction and repulsion, sophistication and brutality.

These images, with their stripped-back composition, are inhabited by strangely motionless beings, suspended in their own time and space; while lost in their dreams and thoughts, they meander through a land where the imaginary world of the photographer, the character and viewer's imagination project and come together.