Anne-Lise Broyer, Nicolas Comment, Amaury da Cunha and Marie Maurel de Maillé decided to come together, to think through their images collectively and arrange them as a single organic whole. Though their routes have been distinct, they recognised parallel or kindred experiences running beneath their individual singularities, and with Being Beauteous they try to find a shared photographic gesture - an attempt, as one contributor puts it, to reawaken a concept with a rich history, far from exhausted.