In 1981, Juli Susin (b. 1966) left the Soviet Union with his family and settled in Berlin, before the uncertainties of a stateless existence took him to France, where he graduated from the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1991. Starting in the 1980s, he developed with friends an international network of collaborations on artist's books, most recently known as Royal Book Lodge. Juli lives and works between Montreuil, outside Paris, and Albisola in Italy, in the ceramics workshop founded by Ivos Pacetti.