Comte’s interests are very broad: he has always alternated work for the great magazines, such as Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar, with social reportage and editorial projects for the Red Cross, seeing his work as a social and communicative mission firmly rooted in reality. Large-format pictures, unusual and penetrating images, social reportage, aggressive fashion campaigns and intense portraits of children all "cross" in this book. Helena Christensen, Rupert Everett, Robbie Williams, Iggy Pop, Sharon Stone, Sophia Loren, Nastassja Kinski, Sting and Demi Moore alternate with pictures of Afghanistan, Iraq and Bosnia: very different, contrasting realities, photographed with equal skill, in a surprising and unexpected visual journey. "We live on impressions. Every day, when we open a newspaper, it is the photograph that strikes us more than anything else. People no longer read so much, they look" (Michel Comte).