Georges Louis Arlaud - Arrivée du minerai de plomb de la mine de Takhbart à Tagadir (Maroc), vers 1925

At the age of 22, Georges-Louis Arlaud took over a small ceramics workshop in Thun. Fascinated by this activity, he closed the workshop and moved to Geneva in 1896, where he opened a photographic salon with Ferdinand Lacombe (Lacombe-Arlaud workshop), although he was the main author of most of the works. He became a member of the Swiss Photographic Society in 1900. He published albums of views of the Saas Valley (1902) and Mont Blanc (1904). Arlo's partner Lacombe retired from the business in 1907 and in 1910. Arlo opened a second workshop in Lyon. He worked in both cities for two years, and in 1912 he closed the Geneva workshop and worked in Lyon for the next 30 years, earning him the nickname "Lyon's Nadar". In 1916. Arlo was one of the co-founders of the Lyon International Fair. The most important work of Arlaud's later years was a 576-page album of landscape photographs, Le Visage de la France, which he produced between 1925 and 1927 for the Paris publishing house Horizons de France, also founded by the Swiss expatriate Jacques Lagrange; the album went through three editions with a total circulation of 45,000 copies. This was followed by the album "The Face of France: North Africa", which included Arlaud's images of Morocco. Selected works from these two albums were reissued in 2000.