Born in 1981 and 1987 in the Parisian suburbs, Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre started photographing independently in 2001. In 2005 they began to collaborate for their project The Ruins of Detroit, which Steidl published to acclaim in 2010 and which is now in its fourth edition. Steidl has also published Marchand and Meffre's Gunkanjima (2013).