Having moved to Beijing from France, she combined her love for Chinese culture with photography. Ever since 2004, portraiture photography is her main focus. She has worked as a scout photographer for Traffic d’Images agency from 2002, and her press works have been published in various publications such as Time magazine, Elle, Telegrama, Le Monde, and Libération, among others. Participating in creating the book titled Chinese Portraits, Martane portrays the Chinese people and the life in China viewed through the eyes of a European.