Be they alive or dead, famous or unknown, Jean-Pierre Maury has taken plaster casts of their faces and produced masks of their features.
Maury, 74, is the last of a dying breed of face mask moulders and his studio in the Montparnasse district of the French capital is living testimony to his craft.
At the end of a courtyard, he works among an impressive of array of artefacts - plaster figures and figurines, esoteric sculptures, masks reminiscent of the medieval Commedia dell'Arte, hanging by the dozen from the rafters and interspersed with strange wood panel sculptures that bring to mind Hieronymous Bosch's 'Garden of Earthly Delights' and a whole gallery of faces of the famous.
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