Sophie Delaporte, born in 1971, is a French visual artist, photographer and director whobegan her career in the early 2000s by publishing her first fashion series in the British press, and especially in iD Magazine.Noticed for her research around color and movement, Sophie Delaporte takes an early interest on the issue of women’s representation.

The Malankara Church also called the Puthenkoor ,, , refers to the collection of Indian apostolic churches, according to tradition, that claims ultimate origins from the missions of Thomas the Apostle in the 1st century in India and were under the leadership of Marthoma I after the historical Coonan Cross Oath of 1653. All the Churches belonging to the Malankara patrimony follow the Antiochian West Syriac Rite liturgy. The word "Malankara" is a combination of two words, 'Mala' which means mountains and 'Kara' which means land surface; and refers to the state of Kerala in India. The modern-day descendants of the Malankara Church are the Oriental Orthodox Jacobite Syrian Christian Church (JSCC); the JSCC are an integral part of the Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch. The autocephalous Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church (MOSC), also known as the Indian Orthodox Church is part of the Oriental Orthodox communion. The Mar Thoma Church (MTC) is an independent Oriental Protestant church that split off in the 19th century, and since established communion with the Church of England and the Anglican communion. The Malankara Syrian Catholic Church is the faction that joined with the Holy See of Rome in 1930. This Malankara land had a historical trade connection with the Middle East nations from the ancient era and the traders from Egypt, Persia, and the Levant frequently visited this land for getting spices. These groups included Arabs, Jews and also Christians, and the Christians who visited here maintained contact with the Malankara Church. As such the Church in Malankara was in touch with other Eastern churches such as the Coptic and Persian churches. The Malankara Church was headed by the Archdeacon is known as Head of Malankara Christians. Archdeacon is the highest post for a cleric in the Church of the East after a bishop. Later a regular 'Bishopric' was established in Malankara with the help of Gregorios Abdal Jaleel Jerusalem Bishop of Syriac Orthodox Church, who oversees the faithful from the Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch. The Malankara Church was unique and unanimous till the 16th century and it was consolidated under the India-Eccesiastical Province of the Church of the East. Later some rifts happened due to the colonization of the Latin Catholic Portuguese padroado missionaries. After the Synod of Diamper, the Church was absorbed into the Archdiocese of Goa, administered by Latin Padroado. This led to gradual schism among the St. Thomas Christians. The Malankara Church , led by Archdeacon Thomas, who was regularised as a canonical bishop in 1665, by Archbishop Mor Gregorios Abdul Jaleel of the Syriac Orthodox Church, adopted the Oriental Orthodox faith and affiliated themselves to the Oriental Orthodox Communion. The other faction that was led by Palliveettil Mar Chandy, cousin of Marthoma I and consecrated as a Bishop in 1663, affiliated with the Propaganda Fide missionaries of the Catholic Church. They constitute the contemporary Eastern Catholic Syro-Malabar Church. The faction of people who stood with the Archdeacon (Mor Thoma I) initially remained independent as Malankara Nasranis, also known as Tarisaykal which means "Orthodox". With the arrival of Mar Gregorios Abdal Jaleel Bawa in 1665 from the Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch, he was able to establish ties between the Malankara Church and the Syriac Orthodox Church. And adopt over the Malankara Rite liturgy from the West Syriac liturgy of the Syriac Orthodox Church instead of the Babylonian liturgy of the erstwhile Church of the East. Later a number of splits happened in Malankara Church due to the influence of foreign missionaries and internal conflicts. In the year 1772 a Syriac Orthodox bishop consecrated Kattumangatt Kurien (Mar Cyril) as his successor against the wishes of the Metropolitan, Mar Dionysius I; Cyril led a faction that eventually became the Malabar Independent Syrian Church. In the 19th century, a reform movement inspired by British missionaries led to the formation of the independent Mar Thoma Syrian Church under the leadership of the incumbent Malankara Metropolitan, Mathews Mar Athanasius, while the rest of the church, resistant to British influence and affiliated to Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch, came under the direct jurisdiction of the Pulikkootil Joseph Mar Divanasios, who was created Malankara Metropolitan by Ignatius Peter IV, the incumbent Jacobite Patriarch is known as Syriac Orthodox Church of India (Known as Jacobite Syrian Christian Church). In 1911, the church was divided into two factions due to internal disputes. Since then the faction that supported the patriarch of antioch was known as Bava Kakshi (Patriarch faction) or the jacobite church and Methran Kakshi (bishop faction) or Malankara orthodox who supported Geevarghese Dionysius of Vattasseril Malankara Metropolitan later Methran Faction(Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church) ordained Catholicos in 1912 by excommunicated Patriarch Ignatius Abded Mshiho II creating fear in the Malankara Church that he would attempt to take control of the church, reversing the decisions of the Council of Mulanthuruthy in 1876. The Apex Court of India passed a remarkable judgement on the Malankara Church dispute on 3 July 2017 in favor of Malankara Metropolitan and Catholicose and this put an end to all the internal conflictsin the Malankara Church. The faction that supports the Patriarch of Antioch continue as Jacobite Syrian Christian Church (also known as the Syriac Orthodox Church of India), Later established Catholicate / Maphrianate of the East in India renamed to Catholicos of India.
The Malankara Church also called the Puthenkoor ,, , refers to the collection of Indian apostolic churches, according to tradition, that claims ultimate origins from the missions of Thomas the Apostle in the 1st century in India and were under the leadership of Marthoma I after the historical Coonan Cross Oath of 1653. All the Churches belonging to the Malankara patrimony follow the Antiochian West Syriac Rite liturgy. The word "Malankara" is a combination of two words, 'Mala' which means mountains and 'Kara' which means land surface; and refers to the state of Kerala in India.

Sophie Delaporte, born in 1971, is a French visual artist, photographer and director whobegan her career in the early 2000s by publishing her first fashion series in the British press, and especially in iD Magazine.Noticed for her research around color and movement, Sophie Delaporte takes an early interest on the issue of women’s representation. She was invited in June 2019 for the Dora Maar exhibition by the centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, to take part in a « table ronde » aboutwomen’s place and inclusion in Art, and their representation in the women’s Press Magazine ( with Sacha Van Dorssen and Mathieu Meyer ).