- Standard profile for a bad student, Grégoire Philipidhis prefers to draw on his knees instead of listening to his teachers. After quitting classes, he becomes an illustrator, an art director, and a photographers for advertising and fashion magazines.
- He creates Jill Magazine and win some prices with the Artistic Director club in France and Italy. Since 2002, he focuses on his personnal work, with light painting.
- This approach helps him sophisticate the hyperrealistic spirit often linked to photography and introduce a manual processing in this mecanical universe.
- He doesn't create along with a snapshot but with length, motion and absence.