Stéphanie Lacombe always knew that she would be a photographer. At age eight, armed with her first camera, she was already immortalizing her family and its meals. She made a detour to study decorative arts, just to make sure she did in fact prefer photography to graphic design. That’s where she picked up her first assignment: a series of photos in La Grande Borne de Grigny (a low-income community outside Paris). The experience of seeing her report published and discussed gave her a taste for tracking down the ordinary and the intimate in the places where people live. That means taking pictures at the family table, since, she says, “You can read everything through meals – from religion to education.” Now she just has to convince Corsicans, Bretons and others to open their doors – that’s her next challenge.