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Note: all the texts were written by the experts and translated by us, as necessary.

NB: Your choice of experts can only be logged once your payment has been approved. Final allocation of appointments is made: by order of arrival of registrations, according to experts' availability and to your dates in Arles.



Emily Adam
Photo Espana
Madrid, Spain
English, Spanish
Reviews: 15h-18h30, 11th of July and 9h30-13h 12th of July

Emily Adams (Maine, United States, 1978) She studied Art History in Mexico City. From 2002 to 2004 she worked in the Centro de la Imagen, a governmental institution dedicated to photography in Mexico City, where she organized workshops and seminars. She has worked in the past four editions of PHotoEspaña, Madrid´s Internacional Photography and Visual Arts Festival. She is currently the Coordinator of pedagogical and professional programs for the Festival, where she organizes portfolio reviews, workshops, seminars and other activities.



Agnès b.
Desiner/Collector
Galerie du Jour
Paris, France
French, English, Spanish
Reviews : To be determined

Her boutiques have never been totaly dedicated to her fashion, cinema, music and art, considered as sources of inspiration, had their place there. Generous, agnès b. always wanted to « give to see » and « pass around ».
In 1984 she opened the Galerie du Jour. With a strong predilection for photography, the gallery presented with the same freedom, known artists and young artists from various horizons.
In the continuity of this work in her gallery, agnès b. created with the artist Christian Boltanski and the exhibition curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, Point d’Ironie, a “hybrid periodical”. Ever since, 8 times a year, an artist takes possession of this paper format, of which 250 000 copies are distributed for free around the world.
“Amateur” with eclectic taste, agnès b. is also naturally collector. She started without noticing it,, with a small photo bought on a market, ever since her collection has grown. Her photographs were presented at the Centre National de la Photographie in Paris and then in the Pavillon Baltard in Nogent-sur-Marne. In 2004 a big part of her private contemporary art collection was presented at the Abattoirs de Toulouse.
Her private collection of photographs and videos will be presented at the C/O in Berlin in October 2008. She will also publish a book which will gather her whole collection.



Nailya Alexander
Director
Nailya Alexander Gallery
New York, USA
English, Russian
Reviews: 15h-18h30, 11th and 12th of July

Nailya Alexander Gallery is located in the renowned New York Gallery Building on 57th Street between 5th and 6th Avenues. Nailya Alexander opened her gallery in 2004 after being a private dealer for seven years.
Nailya Alexander Gallery specializes in Soviet (1930s-1960s) and contemporary photography. The gallery’s focus has been the rediscovery of lesser known, significant periods and artists in the history of photography, dedication to gallery artists and support of emerging talent. Nailya Alexander represents the Arkady Shaikhet and Max Penson Estates. In recent years the gallery explored the power of contemporary photojournalism with exhibitions like Lori Grinker’s AFTERWAR: Veterans from a World in Conflict (2005), a group show Apocalypse: Contemporary Visions (2007), and IRAQ: Scars & Exile, Grinker’s recent photographic journey. Nailya Alexander Gallery has mounted museum quality exhibitions such as Staging Happiness: The Formation of Socialist Realist Photography (2004), Remembering WW II (2005) and Alexander Zhitomirsky: Photomontages 1931-1973 (2005). Gallery exhibitions have been reviewed in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The New York Sun, ARTnews and Art in America. Gallery artists have gained critical acclaim and international recognition, and are included in the collections of major European and US museums.
Nailya Alexander is a member of the Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD). Her gallery participates in the annual AIPAD Photography Show in New York City.



Remi Babinet
Founder of BETC and creation director
BETC
Paris, France
French
Reviews : 15h-18h30 9th of July and 9h30-13h 10th of July

Between 1985 and 1994 he was creator-redactor at BDDP where he won many awards for known brands such as Polaroid, Virgin, BMW, McCain and Le Printemps.
In 2004 he founded his advertising agency with Tong Cuong. It was awarded « European Agency of  the year » (Ad Age Global) and most creative agency of the year 11 times since its creation. BETC offers a clear, original and modern brand image to its clients – Evian, Air France, Peugeot, Canal , Petit Bateau, INPES, Le Parisien, Aigle.
Rémi Babinet opened his agency to new domains of creation. In 2003 he inaugurated the Passage du Désir, dedicated to fashion, design, paint and photography with Hussein Chalayan, Yohji Yamamoto, Viktor & Rolf, Christian Lacroix, le Festival d’Automne in Paris, Rineke Dijkstra, Ruri, Joana Vasconcelos, World Press/Mois de la Photo. For Rémi Babinet, advertising must be open and involved in the contemporary world, it is the only way it can create other links with society and consumers.
Rémi Babinet also teaches at Sciences Po and in 2008 he was a member of the Hyere’s photography contest, a fashion and photography festival.
 


Simon Bainbridge
British Journal of Photo
London, UK
English
Reviews: 15h-18h30, 8, 9, 10 and 13th of July

Simon Bainbridge is the editor of British Journal of Photography, a weekly magazine based in London, established in 1854. The magazine is aimed at professional photographers, featuring interviews, portfolios, special reports and reviews, focusing on both national and international photography of all types and genres. He is also a contributing editor for Magenta magazine in Toronto, a freelance writer, portfolio reviewer and judge for numerous photographic competitions.



David Balsells
Head curator of the photography department.
MNAC (Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya),
Barcelona, Spain
Catalan, Spanish, French
Reviews: 09h30 – 13h/ 10th  July

From 1981 to 1985 David Balsells worked at the Forum Gallery in Tarragona, specialised in international contemporary photography.  He is then curator at the Photography Department at the Joan Miró Foundation in Barcelona from its creation in 1985 to 1987, date of its closure.
In 1987 the Department of Culture of the Autonomous Government of Catalonia entrusts him with the running of the 1988 biennial festival “Primavera Fotogràfica” (Spring of Photography) and all its following editions until 2002.
Since September 1996 he is head curator of the Photography Department of the MNAC (Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalonia).



Inese Baranovska
Curator
Agence « j3b »
Riga, Latvia
English, Russian
Reviews: 09h30 – 13h/ 8th, 9th of July

Inese Baranovska, is an art historian, exhibition curator. Collection Curator of the Collection Development Department of the new coming Contemporary Art Museum, Riga, Latvia (www.j3b.gov.lv


Sam Barzilay
Editor
Power House Books
London, UK
English, Greek
Reviews: 15h-18h30, 8th, 9th, and 10th of July

Sam Barzilay is the Curatorial Coordinator of the New York Photo Festival. Prior to joining the nascent organization in its noble quest, he was a staff member of the VII Photo Agency in Paris and New York. In his previous lives he has been a social documentary photographer traveling extensively throughout Central Asia as well as a rather successful artist, most recently exhibiting his work in a solo exhibition at the Oslo Museum in Norway.



Gabriel Bauret
Independent curator
Paris, France
French
Reviews: all day on the 9th of July and 9h30 - 13h, the 10th of July

Gabriel Bauret was director of the Zoom magazine from 1980 to 1984. He was the redactor in chief for Camera International until 1993. Today he is independent curator for thematic and retrospective exhibitions in France (for the European House of Photography in Paris, for les Rencontres d’Arles, les Transphotographiques in Lille) and abroad (Luxembourg, Japan, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, U.S.A.). He signed an exhibition as well as a book about the artistic director Alexey Brodovitch and for the same publisher, Assouline, he published a book about colour in 2001. 
In 2004, an important book for the éditions du Chêne followed by an exhibition on the gates of the Senate in Paris: “Est-ce ainsi que les hommes vivent?”. In 2006 he was named artistic delegate for the Mois de la Photo in Paris. He has just signed a monograph dedicated to Lucien Clergue (La Martinière) and another to Peter Knapp (Chêne). He is curator of an itinerant retrospective dedicated to the Japanese photograph Shoji Ueda, he it also arranging several exhibitions for the Mois de la Photo in Paris.


Jean-Christophe Béchet
Photographer
Paris - France
French, English
Reviews: 9h30 - 13h, 10th and 12h of July

I am 42 years old. Author of four photo monographs (Electric Cités, Sax, sex, 23 h, Tokyo Station and Vues n°0, un manifeste photographique ), I have been working for over ten years on a personal project influenced by reportage and American and Japanese street photography. My work is the direct result of the dualities of contemporary photography, such as how to reconcile digital and film photography, documentary and art photography, black and white and color images.  In this “contemporary turmoil” I defend the idea of the photographic specificity as well as “projects” instead of photography aimed at the art market. I also like it when photography doesn’t cut its “original” ties with reality. Finally, I consider books and magazines like the most “natural” homeground for my photos.



Robert Berman
Director
Robert Berman Gallery
Santa Monica, U.S.A.
English
Reviews: 15h-18h30, 10th and 12h of July

He has been the director and owner of Robert Berman Gallery in Santa Monica since 1979. Selected shows have included Keith Haring 1986, Raymond Pettibon 1991, William Burroughs 1996 and Man Ray in 1997, including his film, photography and paintings. Currently, he represents important photographers such as John Colao, Jeff Charbonneau, Eliza French and Alex Prager. He was co-chair of the L.A. International Biennial Invitational from 1993-2003. 



Sophie Bernard

Chief Editor

Images Magazine
Paris, France
French, English
Reviews: 15h-18h30,  8th and 10th of July 



Elisabeth Biondi
Visual’s Editor
The New Yorker
New York, USA
English, German
Reviews: 09h30 – 13h, 8th, 9th of July

Born and educated in Germany, Ms. Biondi started working with photography when GEO Magazine, often described as a more contemporary and controversial version of National Geographic, made its appearance on the American market.  Although the magazine won many awards for its photography and design, it ultimately ceased publication in 1984.
Subsequently, she moved to VANITY FAIR, which soon began to grow into the highly successful magazine it is today.  As Director of Photography, she focused on lively, witty portraiture – an important contribution to the increased success of the publication. 
After seven years at Vanity Fair, Ms. Biondi returned to Germany to work for STERN, one of Germany’s largest news weeklies.  As head of the Photography Department, she explored the fast-paced world of news and reportage photography, and worked with photographers around the world.  After five years, in 1996, she returned to New York to join the staff of The New Yorker.
At the time, photography has just been introduced to the magazine and it began to play a more prominent editorial role.  As Visuals Editor she has helped shape the look of the publication by establishing a group of staff photographers, commissioning both ‘Masters’ and emerging talent, and utilizing portrait, fine art, and documentary photography.  She continues to build the magazine's reputation for its use of photography, which is much acclaimed and has received numerous awards.



Vladimír Birgus
Director
Birgus Gallery
Opava, Czech Republic
English, Russian, Polish
Reviews: 09h30 – 13h/ 9th, 11th of July

Vladimír Birgus (born 1954) is Head of the Institute of Creative Photography at the Silesian University in Opava, for many years he was also Professor of the Department of Photography of the Film and Television Faculty, Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. He is chairman of the Art Board of Prague House of Photography, curator of Gallery Opera in Ostrava and House of Art in Opava, chief curator of Prague Biennale Photo, chief editor of Photorevue.com, Czech editor of Imago magazine and collaborator of many other magazines including Fotograf, Fotografie Magazín, Ateliér, Photonews, European Photography etc. He is the author and co-author of 25 books, including Tschechoslowakische Fotografie der Gegenwart (Heidelberg 1990), European Photography Guide. 6, 7, 8 (Göttingen.1997, 2000, 2003), Czech Photography of the 1990s (Prague and Chicago 1998), Czech Photographic Avant-Garde 1918-1948 (Prague and Stuttgart 1999, Cambridge and London 2002), Photographer František Drtikol (Prague 2000), The Nude in Czech Photography (Prague 2001), Jaroslav Rössler – Czech Avant-Garde Photographer (Cambridge and London 2003, Czech Photography of the 20th Century (Prague, 2005), Eugen Wiškovský (Prague 2006), František Drtikol (Arles, 2007). His photographs have been exhibited in over 50 one-person exhibitions. He has curated and co-curated number of exhibitions in many museums and galleries in Europe and the USA, with Jan Mlcoch he was curator of the exhibition Czech Photography of the 20th Century (Prague 2005). He is interested in all kinds of good creative, portrait, staged, documentary and reportage photography but not in commercial nudes or traditional lanscapes. www.birgus.com



Anne Biroleau
Curator
Bibliothèque Nationale de France
Paris, France
French
Reviews: Dates and times to be confirmed

Anne Biroleau works at the National French Library (Bibliothèque Nationale de France) where she is chief curator in the embossment and photography department and in charge of the photography collection of the XXIst  century. She is exhibition curator at the Bibliothèque Nationale photo gallery. She organized the following exhibitions: Minot and Gormezano (may 2003), Portraits/Visages (october 2003), Stéphane Coutirer, photographies (june 2004), Mario Giacomelli (january 2005), Objets dans l'objectif with Jean-Louis Garnell (june 2005), Sebastiao Salgado (october 2005), Roger Ballen (2006).
Upcoming exhibitions: Seventies, Carl de Keyzer.



Robert Blake
General Studies Program director
International Center of Photography
New York,USA
English, French
Reviews: 09h30 – 13h, 9th and 10th of July

Robert Blake is a photographer, independent curator, writer, editor and award winning videographer. Mr. Blake has helped to shape the vision of many photographers entering the field, either as artists or professional photographers. He is particularly interested in conceptually strong documentary, experimental photo-based art, and the tension between
fiction and evidence in storytelling. A first generation American, Mr. Blake’s personal work often involves the idea of belonging to a place in relation to conditions of loss – loss of home, memory, history, or political representation.



Emma Blau
Executive Director, Curator of Exhibitions
Camera Press Ltd
London, UK
English, French
Reviews: 15h-18h30, 9th of july and 09h30–13h,10th of July

Emma Blau has had a varied career within the field of photography. A Goldsmiths MA Photography graduate, she has worked as a photo editor on national newspapers and magazines as well as being an established portrait photographer herself- her photographs have appeared in leading publications such as British Vogue  and The Sunday Times Magazine. She has also combined her editorial photography with a number of gallery shows. Work from her last exhibition (IN)VISIBLE (IN)SIGHTS, featuring photographs by autistic adults as well as her own striking portraits of the contributing photographers involved, was highly commended in the 2003 Observer Hodge Awards as well as being nominated for the Citi Group Prize in 2004. In 2007 her photography went into the National Portrait Gallery, London’s permanent collection.
Emma was appointed Gallery Director of the renowned Tom Blau Gallery in 2003. During her time there she sourced and curated a number of critically acclaimed exhibitions including Chris Shaw’s “Night Porter” series, Morten Nilsson’s “Dancers” , Wolfgang Mueller’s “Karat: Sky Over St. Petersburg” and “Remembering JFK: A Jacques Lowe Retrospective.”  Last year she was responsible for organising the Rencontres D’Arles exhibition QEII@80 celebrating 60 years of Camera Press Ltd, the London based photo agency founded by her Grandfather, the photographer Tom Blau.
She continues to work as a successful photographic artist from her studio in London as well as being Executive Director of Camera Press and Curator of Exhibitions at the Camera Press gallery.



Enrico Bossan
Head of Photography
Fabrica
Treviso - Italy
Italian, English, Spanish
Reviews: 09h30 – 13h, 8th and 9th of July

Enrico Bossan was born in Dolo (Venice) in 1956 and has dedicated himself to photography since 1975. He has had his photographs published in national and international magazines since 1985 and has been represented by the agency Contrasto since 1992. In 2004 he began teaching a Masters in Journalism at the University of Padua. In 1987 he won the Kodak prize for professional photography. His images have been exhibited at the Houston PhotoFest, at the Turin International Photography Biennale, in Amsterdam, Arles, Milan, Rome, Salonica, Tokyo and Venice.
His reportage have also been published as books: “Pechino-Parigi” (1986), a voyage from Asia to Europe following the adventurous route of Itala and “Exit” (1992), which describes “two visions” of today’s America originating from a collaboration with photographer Roberto Koch. But his travels don’t just follow geographic routes. Bossan worked on a project about health for an extended period. He offered a view into the lives of hospital patients (which was awarded the Romeo Martinez Prize in 1996). His interest in life and work within health structures led him to develop a series of photographic and editorial projects. In 2000 he published “Esodo” (Exodus), a look into a home for AIDS patients and “Un privilegio difficile”(A difficult privilege), a black and white reportage about health in Sub-Saharan Africa. In 2002 he published “Il cerchio della Salute” (The circle of health) about health services in the city where he lives, Padua. In 2003 with the reportage “èAfrica” (This is Africa) he immortalized a positive image of everyday Africa with its people, objects, colors and smells. Also on the theme of public health, in 2003 Bossan changed expressive medium and directed four short films. He is currently working on a project of social and cultural communication with Rovigo’s Azienda Sanitaria (health services) and from June 2005 he has been the head of Fabrica’s Photography Department.



Annie Boulat
Director, chief editor
Cosmos agency
Paris, France
French
Reviews: 15h-18h30, 10th of july 09h30-13h, 11th of July

Annie Boulat was born in Paris in 1938, after her baccalauréat she got married to Pierre Boulat, photograph for the magazine Life and started working with him as a journalist. She then became free-lance researcher in 1962 and then executive assistant at Sipa Presse between 1973 and 1977.
In 1977 she created COSMOS, her photographic press agency where she is still director and chief editor today. The agency represented among others the Agence Contact Press Images, Aurora, Archives, Matrix Focus, Grazia Neri and VII.



Günter Braus
Editor
Edition Braus
Heidelberg, Germany
English, German, French
Reviews: 09h30-13h, 11th and 12th of July.

Günter Braus, born in 1943 in Heidelberg, learned the trade of typesetter after completing finishing school (abitur). From 1967 to 1971 he studied book production and printing technology at the Munich Polytechnic University, after which he worked for two years with the Organisation Committee of the Olympic Games in Munich. He began his professional career in 1973 in a printing house in Heidelberg, where he remained until 1993, by which time he was General Manager. In 1983 he founded Edition Braus, a publisher of art and photography and regional titles. In 1993, together with the publishers of Marval, Peliti Associati, Lunwerg Editores and Dewi Lewis Publishing, he was a co-founder of the European Publishers Award for Photography. Günter Braus has served as juror at many awards and has received many national and international book prizes.



Laurence Brun
Lecturer
Jeu de paume
Paris- France
French, English, German
Reviews: 15h-18h30, 11th and 12th of July

Freelance photographer, member of the Rapho agency from 1968 to 1982, Laurence Brun’s work on Afghanistan, « Afghan women between tradition and modernity (1970-1972) » received a lot of press attention. In 1980 she obtains the Air France Prize (under the patronage of the Paris Town Council) during the “Mois de la Photo” (bi-annual photography event held in November). She then joins the National Center of Photography in Paris (under the direction of Robert Delpire), where she is responsible for allocating Creation Grants. In 1997 she is co-responsible of the cultural and educational department of the National Center of Photography in Paris, and she has been giving lectures since 2004 for the Cultural department of the Jeu de paume in Paris.



Giovanna Calvenzi
Director of Photography
Sportweek (La Gazzetta dello Sport)
Milan – Italy
Italian, French, English, Spanish
Reviews: 09h30 – 13h, 10th and 11th July

After graduating with an Arts degree, Giovanna Calvenzi teaches photography for eleven years whilst collaborating with several Italian publications. In 1985 she becomes photo editor at the weekly magazine “Amica” (Rizzoli group), then moving on to “Max” magazine and “7”, a supplement of the daily newspaper Corriere della Sera. In January 1990 she is made editor in chief of photography of “Vanity Fair” part of Conde Nast Publications Italy. From February 1991 to February 1992 she runs the monthly women’s magazine “Lei-Glamour” (also part of Conde Nast Publications). She holds once more the position of photo editor at “Moda” magazine for 3 years, then from January 1996 at “Specchio”, supplement of the daily newspaper La Stampa. Since January 2000 she is director of photography at “Sportweek”, weekly supplement of La Gazetta dello Sport.
Giovanna Calvenzi is also artistic director and curator of photography exhibitions and editions,  developing an activity of intense research around contemporary photography.
In June 1990, the association “Droit de regard” (based in Paris, France) nominated her “Best European Photo Editor” for her work at “7” and, in 1998 she was director of the Arles International Photography Festival (the Rencontres d’Arles). In 2002 she was guest curator at PhotoEspana. She is a member of the consultative committee of the “Mosaïque” photography aid program.



Armelle Canitrot
La Croix
Paris, France
French, English
Reviews : 9h30-13h, 9th of July

Co-founder and redactor in chief of the magazine Pour Voir in 2000
She wrote for the following books : Le témoin, Gilbert Garcin, Filigranes, 2005 and Monographie, Corinne Mercadier, Filigranes, 2007.
Today she is critique and in charge of the photography department of the newspaper La Croix.




Christian Caujolle
Director
VU
Paris, France
French, English, Spanish
Lectures : 15h-18h30 10th et 11th of July

Born in 1953, former student of the Ecole Normale Supérieure (Saint Cloud). Student and collaborator of Michel Foucault, Roland Barthes and Pierre Bourdieu. He specialised in Hispanic literature including minority languages (catalan, kechua)  1978 researcher for the CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique)  From 1978 to 1986 he collaborated for the newspaper Libération as a journalist and more precisely as photography critique.
Between 1981 and 1986 he was editor in chief in charge of photography for Libération, he published special issues dedicated to Jean Paul Sartre and Jean Cocteau.
In 1986 he created the VU photography agency.
In 1997 he was artistic director of the Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie d’Arles. He was invited curator for the Foto Biennale de Rotterdam of 2000 and for PhotoEspaña 2001 where he presented young Iranian photographs and Thai and Anglo-Saxon photographs from Bangkok
He was also curator for the presentation of the DG Bank  collection at the Kunsthalle in Frankfort.
Between 1986 and 2006 he directed the VU agency and from 1998 the VU gallery with he created.
Since 2006 he is visiting professor at the Ecole Notionale Supérieure Louis Lumière and took part in the « Feuilleton » organised by « Artistes et associés » and the Centre Georges Pompidou.
In 2007 he created a seminar dedicated to image at the Ecole Normale Supérieure (rue d’Ulm)
He directed the collections « Voire et Dire » and « Fondation CCF » for the Actes-Sud editions.
He also curated many exhibitions worldwide.
Main publications: monographs of Jacques Henri Lartigue (Italian, French and Spanish edition), William Klein, Sebastiao Salgado, Peter Beard, Anders Petersen, Christer Strömholm (Photo Poche), Gisèle Freund (Schirmer Mosel Germany, Albin Michel, Norton USA), Raymond Depardon (Cahiers du Cinéma).  Catalogue « Ethique, esthétique, politique » of the Rencontres d’Arles, Actes Sud, Michael Ackerman (Nathan, Delipre and Scalo), Isabel Muñoz (Plume, Actes Sud, Schirmer Mosel, Lunwerg), Cristina Garcia Rodero (Contrejour, Lunwerg, TF Editores), Chema Madoz (Assouline), Claudine Doury (Seuil), Paolo Pellegrin (Motta). His last productions, in addition to many books, consist in the Bernard Facon retrospective at the MEP in Paris; the 50 years World Press Photo anniversary exhibition « Things as they are : photography in context », Chris Boot Publishers who received the Book Infinity Award at ICP  New York ;  and  Gérard Rondeau « Hors Cadre » (Grand Palais) which will be presented at an international level.
In 2007 he organised a conference for the 10 years anniversary of PhotoEspaña. He is also curator for South East Asia and Korea in the first edition of the PhotoQuai biennale organised by the Musée du Quai Branly.



Elena Ceratti
Executive manager
Grazia Neri Agency
Milan –Italy
Italian, French, English
Reviews: 9h30 – 13h, 11th of July

Elena Ceratti (Italy) lives and works in Milan as international news editor at the prominent photojournalism agency Grazia Neri. After starting her career as a photo researcher and journalist for the Italian and French press, she went to work as a photo researcher for a number of reference books, including the De Agostini yearbooks and the Rusconi
Encyclopaedia.
Ceratti has also sat on the juries of several photography contests in Italy and abroad, including World Press Photo and since 1990 had curated a number of photographic exhibitions, including major presentations of Robert Doisneau,Willy Ronis, Donna Ferrato, Douglas Kirkland and Mary Ellen Mark.  Would preferably see photojournalists during the reviews.



Clément Chéroux
Curator
Centre Georges Pompidou
Paris - France
French, English   
Reviews: 09h30 – 13h, 8th July

Clément Chéroux is a historian of photography and the author of a number of books on the subject. He curated the exhibitions "Remembering: Photographs of Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camps" (2001); "The Third Eye: Photography and the Occult" (2004); and "Picture Post: Photographic Postcards in the Early 20th Century" (2007). He is currently deputy chief editor of the magazine Etudes Photographiques and photography curator at the Centre Pompidou.



Olivia Delhostal
Artistic director
Corbis Outline
Paris, France
French, English
Reviews : 15h-18h30, 11th of July

Since 2001, Olivia Delhostal works to the production and edition of portraits of personalities in the parisian division of Corbis Outline. She works with the photographs Antoine Le Grand, Ludovic Carème, Patrick Swirc, Denis Rouvre, Jean François Robert, Roberto Frankenberg, Claudio Carpi, Vincent Lignier, Xavier Torres Bacchetta, Jérôme de Perlinghi, Vincent Ferrané, Thibault Grabherr, Rüdy Waks, Jérôme Bonnet, Ralph Wenig and Benni Valsson
Olivia Delhostal is artistic director for Corbis Outline Europe.




Marco Delogu
Director
FotoGrafia
Rome, Italy
Italian, English
Reviews: 15h-18h30, 8th and 9th of July

Marco Delogu was born in Rome, where he still lives and works, in 1960.
His work focuses on portraits of groups of people who have experiences and languages in common. He has published more than twenty books. He has exhibited in Italy and abroad, both in museums and galleries, such as Galleria Comunale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome; Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome; the Warburg Institute, London; the Henry Moore Foundation, Leeds; IRCAM, Centre George Pompidou, Paris; the Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne; PhotoMuseum, Moscow. In October he will have a big solo exhibition in Accademia di Francia, Villa Medici, Rome.
Alongside his work as a photographer, Marco Delogu also works as an exhibition curator and publisher. In 2002 he created the first FotoGrafia – festival internazionale di Roma, of which he is still artistic director. He has curated more than 50 exhibitions including some of the most important figures of world photography, such as Josef Koudelka (Mercati di Traiano, Rome 2003), Sally Mann (Galleria Karsten Greve, Paris 2004) Olivo Barbieri (Mercati di Traiano, Rome 2004), Don Mccullin (Mercati di Traiano, Rome 2004), Anders Petersen (Musei Capitolini, Rome 2005), Martin Parr (Musei Capitolini, Rome 2006), Graciela Iturbide (Tempio di Adriano, Rome 2007).
 In 2003 he founded the publishing house Punctum.



Freddy Denaes
Director
Les Editions de l’oeil
Montreuil, France
English, French
Reviews : 9h30-13h, 10th of July and 15h-18h30, 11th of July

Born in 1957, Freddy Denaës studied cinema in Toulouse. In 1984 he created the association l’Oeil en Cascade, dedicated to educationnal methods with images –fix or animated - and to the exhibition of contemporary art from the whole world.
Since 1986, Denaës is also filmmaker: he produced full-length movies such as Yaaba by Idrissa Ouedraogo, La Plante Humaine by Pierre Hébert, Fin d’été by Arnaud and Jean-Marie Larrieu and  Soulages, le noir et la lumière by Jean-Noël Cristiani en 2008). Since 1997 he is also editor with the creation of L’Oeil edition (Johan van der Keuken, Valie Export, Jean-Daniel Pollet, James-Iroha Uchechukwu, Youssouf Sogodogo, Jodi Bieber... and the collection of contemporary artists passeports: Les carnets de la création).
Freddy Denaës is curator of photography and visual arts exhibitions (Labo photo in 2005, Vers Matola in 2006, Desirréalités in 2007...).




Bernard Derenne
Director
Galerie Chambre avec Vues
Paris, France
French
Reviews : all day 12th of July

He studied social communication at the Institut des Hautes Etudes en Communications Sociales of Brussels (IHECS), press and information section.
Between 1990 and 2000 he was news editor in the magazine branch of the Gamma agency and was in charge of organising and broadcasting coverages for the French and foreign market. From 2000 to 2003 he was also member of the executive committee of Gamma.
Since May 2005 he is the co-creator of the Chambre avec Vues gallery, a society of evaluation of photography and its artists, and photography gallery. Since January 2008 he is also professor of critique and photography aesthetic at Spéos (Paris Photographis Institute).
He is also a collector of ancient and contemporary photographies.



Anne de Villepoix
Director
Anne de Villepoix Gallery
Paris, France
Reviews: all day 8th of July

She studied at the Fines Arts school of Rouen. After having directed the Galerie Yvon  Lambert during three years she opened her own gallery dedicated to contemporary arts in 1990, the Anne de Villepoix gallery. Since the beginning this gallery is open to the international artistic scene, it is place of meetings between countries and cultures. Anne de Villepoix especially works with artists who question the medium such as Kadder Attia, Chris Burden, Yan Pei-Ming, Huang Yong Ping or Rosemarie Trockel. She has a great interest for photography with photography and has discovered many new talents: Sam Samore, Luigi Ghirri or Martha Rosler, for example. Anne de Villepoix was a member of the project leading Fiac committee during 11 years (1996/2007) and since 2001 she is a member of the administration council of the Ecole Nationale supérieure des Beaux Arts de Paris.


Alain D’Hooghe
Director
Box Gallery
Brussels, Belgium
French, English
Reviews: 09h30-13h, 9th, 10th and 11th of July

Alain D’Hooghe was born in Ixelles, Brussels in 1955. In 1983, he founded Clichés, a monthly review dedicated to photographic creation, which he followed through until 1990. In 1994 and 1995 he became editor of Thèmes, bimonthly magazine dealing with documentary photography. Between 1998 and 2001, he wrote a weekly column about photography in Le Matin, a daily newspaper, for which he was also iconographer and responsible of the “L’Oeil ouvert” column dedicated to photo coverage edition. He is in charge of the choice of photography for the quarterly magazine Vu d’ici, published by the Ministry of the French Community of Belgium.
Since 2004 he is director of the box gallery (Brussels) exclusively dedicated to photography.
In 2001 he was nominated artistic advisor of the CCF Foundation for Photography. He is also curator for many photography exhibitions.
Between 1981 and 2003 he was in charge of courses at the La Cambre National College of visual arts where he taught history of photography. He was also professor at the Charles de Gaulle University of fine arts in Lille until 1998.



Dominique Doan
Creation director
Textuel
Paris, France
English, French
Reviews: 15h-18h30, 11th of July

She graduated from the Arts Décoratifs in 1972.
Between 1972 and 1986, she worked as free-lance graphic designer for publishing.
After that she became artistic director then creation director for Texuel.



Jean-François Dubos
Collector/Secretary General
Vivendi Universal
French, English
Reviews: 09h30-13h, 8th and 11th of July

Jean-François Dubos is member of the administration board of the Rencontres d’Arles and a collector. He is also Secretary-General of both the association managing the International Festival of Lyric Art that takes place in Aix-en-Provence and its Association of American Friends. A graduate of the Human Sciences  and Arts faculty, he also has degrees in public law and political sciences. He was auditor at the Hague Academy of of International Law for the 1970 and 1975 sessions. Dubos has also written articles for legal and economic journals, his book « Ventes d’armes : une politique", in the collection « L’air du temps » was published by Gallimard.



Hossein Farmani
Director
Farmani Gallery
Los Angeles, New York, USA
English, Persian
Reviews: 15h-18h30, 10th and 12th of July

Hossein Farmani is the founder of The Lucie Awards, The International Photography Awards, Focus on Aids and the Palm Springs Photography Festival. He is also the owner of the Farmani Gallery, a contemporary photography gallery in Los Angeles, California boasting nearly 24 exhibitions per year of established and emerging photographic talent.
Hossein Farmani’s personal collection of contemporary photography is one of the most important collections in Los Angeles.



Francois Fontaine
News Editor
Palace / Exporama
Paris – France
French
Reviews: 9h30-13h, 9th and 10th of July and 8th of July all day

He is doctor of History of Art - contemporary art (Paris IV-Sorbonne in 2000).
He is photograph for numerous magazines: Palace, Images Magazine, Photo Nouvelles, Réponses Photo, Le Monde de la Musique, Le Monde 2, Double, Photo, La Maison de la Chine, Paisajes, catalogue Weston, Le Monde de la Musique, Connaissance des Arts, Zurban, Paris-art… He worked in South East Asia, Spain, Brazil, China and the Middle East.
Between 1996 and 2002 he was independent curator and worked for the Centre Pompidou, the Grand-Palais and the Musée d'Histoire Contemporaine in Paris and the Museo Picasso in Barcelona.
Between 2002 and 2004, he was editor in chief for the photography magazine Minotaure.
Today he is photography director of the magazine Palace (since 2003) and editor in chief for the magazine Exporama (since 2005).
He published Les fleurs de la nuit, Carnets de la création, Œil edition, Paris, 2003 and three portfolios Regards, Les fleurs de la nuit, Les christs de Salvador, Higgins, Paris, 2007.



Frédérique Founes
Curator
Signature
Paris, France
French
Reviews: 11th of July, all day

After studying audiovisual, Fédérique Founes became responsible of press relations for the photography gallleries of la FNAC, she was then in charge of marketing for the association Les petits Frères des Pauvres. At the same time she worked for the association « Pour Que l’Esprit Vive » where she edited the exhibitions of the Fait & Cause gallery. She joined the Editing agency in 2002 as director of culturel projects and founded the photographers house Signature with Marie Karsenty .
Frédérique Founès was curator of the exhibitions «Amours de vieux » and «La traversée du siècle » at the Fait & Cause gallery ; « Gens d’Irak » (in 2003) for the Rencontres d’Arles, « Lambours toujours » and « Fille indienne » for the Month of photography 2006.



Caroline Geraud
Photo Editor
Vogue
Paris, France
French, English
Reviews: 09h30-13h, 11th of July

After studying politics, Caroline Géraud started her career in 2001 as assistant of Elaine Laffont, editorial director of Hachette Filipacchi Medias in New York. She first worked in the news sector with the Gamma Agency)  which she entered in 2003 and the magazine Photo in France for which she became redactor and iconographer. During the past three year she has directed the photography department for the magazines Vogue Paris and Vogue Homme International from the Conde Nast group.



Gigi Giannuzzi
Director
Trolley Books
London, Great-Britain
English, French, Italian, Spanish
Reviews: 15h-18h30, 10th and 12th of July

Has worked in publishing for over 15 years, setting up his first independent publishing house in 1997 'Westzone', and working with artists such as Richard Long, Richard Serra and Nan Goldin. He founded Trolley Books in 2001, which has since become known for its renowned publications working with some of the best photojournalists in the world, among them Philip Jones Griffiths, Stanley Greene and Jan Grarup, as well as producing a diverse and unique list of photography and contemporary art books.



Masoud Golsorkhi
Director
Tank Magazine
London, UK
English, French
Reviews: 15h-18h30, 11th and 12th of July

Masoud Golsorkhi is the co-founder and Creative director of Tank. Launched in 1998 TANK magazine was striking in its format and content, a beautiful, permanent object filled with timeless ideas, shockingly original images and hitherto untold stories.  Ten years on, it is considered a bible and benchmark for the creative industry.  Tank's next project, MINED, a themed 500-page biannual bookzine supported by Levi's won the D&AD Silver and European Art Director's Gold Star awards in 2002, the first complete magazine to win the award. Since then, TANK has worked across a range of media from custom publishing to advertising and branding work for brands such as Jean Paul Gaultier Perfumes, YSL Beauty, Swarovski, Liberty of London, Braun, British Airways, Christian Lacroix and Dulux. Masoud is a frequent juror on photographic and design competitions, from the Hyeres photography festival to the BluePrint magazine design competition, and sits on discussion panels at the Victoria and  Albert Museum and Tate Modern. He is a visiting professor at Central St-Martins school of design and fashion.



Claude Geiss
Director
Chroniques Nomades photography festival
Honfleur - France
English, French
Reviews : 15h-18h30, 10th and 11th of July

Trained as a graphist, photographer represented by the Rapho agency, head of publishing department at the french National Center of Photography. Independant curator during 8 years (exhibits by Sergio Larrain, Sudek, Ernest Pignon Ernest for the Rencontres d’Arles, Helmut Newton, Raymond Depardon, Robert Doisneau, Jean Loup Sieff...  In 1997, creation and artistic direction of the Chroniques Nomades festival in Honfleur.


Aurèle Hardouin
Director
Atelier A – contemporary photography
Nantes, France
English, French
Reviews : 15h-18h30, 8th and 9th of July

The Atelier A is dedicated to contemporary photography and situated in the heart of the city of Nantes. It is a place of exhibition, exchanges and meetings between different actors of contemporary photography coming from the France but also from the rest of the world.
After living in Paris and New York for several years, Aurèle Hardouin founded her gallery in Nantes where she was born to share her passion for fix and moving images.
The Atelier A is a logical continuation of her professional career. In New York she assisted the American photograph Peter Bread during 3 years She was then assistant of an agent in Paris, curator, art consultant and artist herself.



Elaine Harris
Publicist / Agent
Zotoprod
Paris, France
English, French
Readings: 09h30-13h, 9th and 11th of July, 15h-18h30 10th of July

Because art has always been an important part of her life, Elaine Harris has been evolving in the creation and advertising world for many years. Former head of department of the art purchases structures for DDB and Young & Rubicam, she cooperated with many photographs and produced many shootings worldwide for various clients.
Elaine Harris was also photo reviewer among the jury of the Savignano festival in 2007 and the 39th edition of the Rencontres d’Arles in 2007.
http://www.zotoprod.com/



Melissa Harris
Associate Director of Communication
Aperture
New York, Etats-Unis
English
Lectures : 09h30-13h, 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th of July 

Melissa Harris graduated from Yale University. She is currently the Editor-in-Chief of Aperture magazine, and editor / curator, selected projects for Aperture.  Before that, she worked at Artforum magazine, Interview magazine, the Guggenheim Museum and the New Museum among other places.  She currently teaches at Columbia Journalism School, and Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. She writes for Aperture, Bookforum, and Interview. 



WILLIS E. HARTSHORN
Director
International Center of Photography
New York, USA
English
Readings: 9h30-13h, 10th and 11th of July.

Willis Hartshorn was appointed Director of the International Center of Photography in 1994.  A photographer, curator and author, he holds a B.A. degree from the University of Rochester and an M.F.A. degree in Photographic Studies from the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester.  He joined ICP’s Exhibitions Department in 1982 and served as Traveling Exhibitions Coordinator, Director of Exhibitions, and Deputy Director for Programs prior to his appointment as Director.  He was formerly with the Traveling Exhibitions Program at the Visual Studies Workshop and as Curatorial Assistant at the International Museum of Photography / George Eastman House, Rochester.  His photographs have been shown in individual and group exhibitions since 1973, and he has been the recipient of two NEA photography fellowships.  Among the major exhibitions he has curated for ICP are Czech Modernism: 1918-1945 (with the Museum of Fine Art, Houston, 1989); Annie Leibovitz: Photographs 1970-1990 (with The National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.); Man Ray/Bazaar Years: A Retrospective (1990); and 11 exhibitions in the “New Directions” series, including Two to Tango: Collaboration in Recent American Photography and Art & Advertising: Commercial Photography by Artists.  For more than a decade, he has taught at all levels of ICP’s Education program.  He has been on the Vera List Center Advisory Committee of New York University, and on the Board of the Museum Association of New York (MANY). He is a member of the American Association of Museums (AAM), and an active member of the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD).



Janette Helleu
Philipps de Pury & Company
Paris, France
English, Dutch, French, Spanish
Reviews : 15h-18h30, 9th and 11th of July and 9h30-13h, 12th and 13th of July.

Janette Helleu is a specialist in contemporary photographs with a long-standing passion and expertise in Chinese contemporary photographs.
Most recently she created her gallery in Hong Kong and in Paris " Chinese Eyes" featuring Chinese antiquities and contemporary art. Her previous experience also includes painting restoration work for Gallery Hanart in Hong Kong. After her doctor degree in Art History at the University of Leiden, Holland, she joined Sotheby's New York, Amsterdam and London. In addition, she has produced and curated several exhibitions including an exhibition of "Marc Riboud" in Hong Kong,  "The Gao Brothers" for Galerie Na Solyanke in Moscow and an exhibition entitled "Chinese artists and Tiananmen" for the FOAM Museum in Amsterdam. Currently she is co-producing an exhibition of Jacques-Henri Lartigue for China.
Today she is active as a specialist in the Photographs Department at Phillips de Pury & Company and is based in Paris working closely with the international team of specialists representing Phillips de Pury & Company.
In addition, she will be supporting Chinese Contemporary Art specialist, Chin-Chin Yap in sourcing Chinese contemporary art and sculpture.


Nathalie Herschdorfer
Curator 
Musée de l'Elysée
Lausanne, Switzerland
English, French
Readings: 09h30 – 13h the 10th and 11th of July

Nathalie Herschdorfer is a Curator at the Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland. She was educated as an art historian. Ms Herschdorfer has worked for ten years on the major international traveling exhibitions of the Musée de l’Elysée and their publications. She has co-curated reGeneration: 50 Photographers of Tomorrow, already shown in Lausanne, Milan, New York, Pingyao, and Pasadena, and Face: The New Photographic Portrait, which has been shown in six European countries. She recently worked on retrospectives dedicated to three major American photographers: Edward Steichen, Leonard Freed and Ray K. Metzker, currently touring through Europe. She has curated the exhibition Teen City: The Adventure of Adolescence, now held at the Musée de l’Elysée.

 

 

Caroline Issa
MD and Publisher
Tank Magazine
London, UK
English
Readings: 15h-18h30, the 12th of July and 09h30 – 13h the 13th of July

Caroline Issa is the MD and Publisher of TANK. Graduating from Wharton with a business degree, she was a management consultant for three years living around the world. She moved to London and joined Tank, publishing Tank magazine and overseeing the fledgling creative agency Tank Form. She now also publishes O: Magazine by Tank, a luxury fashion supplement produced quarterly for the Observer newspaper in the UK and launched EO magazine for the Economic Observer financial newspaper in China in 2007. In addition, she works with Christian Lacroix, Liberty, Jean Paul Gaultier Perfumes and Swarovski and others on various marketing and advertising projects.  She was a juror on the fashion panel at last year's festival at Hyeres.



Simon James
Publisher
The Royal Photographic Society Journal
London, UK
English
Reviews: 15h-18h30, 9th and 11th of July

Simon James spent a number of years working as an editorial and portrait photographer for London based magazines. His first book, "Signs of Life", was published by Cornerhouse Publications in 1993, and “Mind The Gap”, with an introduction by Michael Palin, followed in 2001. His photographs are held in several collections in the UK and USA including the National Portrait Gallery, London, and Imperial War Museum, London.
As well as continuing his own self-initiated photographic projects and occasionally writing on photography for publications in the UK and USA, his current main position is Publishing Director of EC1 Publishing Ltd, in London: publishers of The Royal Photographic Society Journal and F2 Freelance Photographer.
Two photographers whose portfolios he reviewed at Arles 2007 went on to be published in EC1 Publishing magazines. At Arles 2008 he is particularly keen to look at the work of photographers who have turned professional at a mid-career point and also recent photography school graduates making their first steps in a photography career.


 
Francis Jolly
Director of collection
Actes Sud
Paris, France
English, French
Reviews : 9h30-13h, 8th July, 15h-18h30, 9th and 10th of July

54 years old, he is photographer and teaches in many art schools. In 2001 he contributed to the  « arts and culture » plan for the ministry of Culture and ministry of Education. For this project he collaborated with many cultural structures such as the musée Niepce, les Rencontres d’Arles and the Mediterranean centre for photography.
He helps to the creation of numerous book about photography for students and professors like the collection « Pôle Photo ».
He sets up exhibitions and artistic projects where photographs intervene. He directs a collection for Thierry Magnier Editions/Actes Sud Junior, with Jeanne Benameur he produces the collection « Photo Roman » where photographs and writers opened new paths between these two arts.



Eric Kawan

Director

Polar NKA* photography

Brussels, Belgium

English, French

Reviews: 15h-18h30, 8th and 9th of July


Eric Kawan was born in Brussels in 1960.
1992-1999 Artistic director and director of creation with the Lowe and Young & Ribicam agencies.
He received several awards from the London Internationat Art Director Award, the intenational Advertising Festival de Cannes as well as other international prizes for his work as artistic director.
2000-2008 Président of the AD Store communication agency.
2006 director of NKA* publishers.
2007 Curator David Tartakover’s exhibition at the Musée de in la
Louvière
2008 Co-director of the Polar NKA* photography gallery. He ensures the artistic direction of the photography department.
Since 1990, he is in charge of the  "Image et Concept" course in various art schools of Belgium (CAD Bruxelles, Ec Sup Mons)  and in France (ECV Aix, Paris, Nantes et Bordeaux)
He is also collector of primitive art, contemporary art and contemporary photography.




Roberto Koch
Director
Contrasto
Rome, Italy
Italian, English
Reviews: 09h30-13h, 8th of July

Born in Rome in 1955, Roberto Koch photographed for the main international magazines events in areas like Northern Ireland, Western Sahara, Egypt, Russia, India etc. He published several books  “Augusto e gli altri” (Mazzotta), Istanti di Russia (Peliti) , recipient of  Kodak award, Exit (Peliti, 1992), with the photographer Enrico Bossan, In Treno, a reportage on Italy seen by the train, book done together with Gianni Berengo Gardin and Ferdinando Scianna, and Album (1998).
Roberto Koch is the founder (directing it since the beginning) in 1986 of the photo agency Contrasto that operates with a staff of 30 photographers with offices in Rome and Milano, and a worldwide syndication. Contrasto has soon become the most important production source of photography in Italy and has achieved important results in the field of the photojournalism being very active also in the promotion of all events related to high quality photography, like exhibitions, and public events on photography.
Her also started in 1994 the publishing house Contrasto with almost 200 titles published until now including the most prominent names of international photography. Contrasto has curated several exhibitions of photographers such Henri Cartier-Bresson, Sebastião Salgado, Richard Avedon, Gianni Berengo Gardin, William Klein, Josef Koudelka, David Goldblatt and many others.
He has been member of World Press Photo Jury in 3 different years, and member of the Jury for the Henri Cartier-Bresson award in 2003.
He is also CEO and founder of Forma, International Center of Photography in Milan, opened in July 2005, where several exhibitions and many different activities around photography, including a masterschool in photography,  find their space.



Jean-Marc Lacabe
Director
Château D'eau
Toulouse, France
French, English
Reviews: 15h-18h30 8th and 11th of July, 9h30 à 13h, 12th of July

Born in 1952. He is the founder of ARPA (Action and photographic research in Aquitaine) which in 1978 developed its actions in diffusing photography in Bordeaux and its region.
He organised more than 150 exhibitions presenting the big names of the history of photography as well as young artists. He contributed to the renewal of the festival Images/Imatges in Orthez which he directed in 1998 and 1999. He created the Rencontres photographiques en Sud-Gironde for the Imagiques association, it takes place in a rural territory and presents contemporary photography.  
Since the end of 2001 he directs the Château d’Eau in Toulouse and chose supporting young creation as the guiding principle of his politics.



Francis Lacloche
Director
Lacloche Gallery
Paris, France
French
Reviews: 09h30-13h, 8th and 9th of July

Francis Lacloche was born in Paris in 1945. After a philosophy baccalauréat he then studied at Sciences Po Paris (political sciences) and economics, he began his career in communication as a creative writer in advertising before becoming galerist and editor of contemporary furniture within his gallery (Lacloche gallery)
In 1990 he became director of sponsorships at the Caisse des Dépôts where he has been constituting an important collection of photographic works which was given and exhibited in 2006 at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. In 2005 he became consultant in cultural projects and curator for Patrick Bouchain, guest architect at the Venice biennale of architecture and Quentin Baljac L’art et l’étiquette, itinerant exhibition (The State Heritage Museum in St Petersburg, Sotheby’s New York, Mori Art Center in Tokyo).
He wrote Architectures de Cinémas, éditions du Moniteur, 1980 and Le Triomphe des Arcs with Christian Dupavillon, Gallimard-Découvertes, 1989.



Patrick Le Bescont
Director
Filigranes
Paris, France
French
Readings: 09h30 – 13h, 8th,  9th and 10th of July

Breton by birth and Breton by nature, photography enthusiast Patrick Le Bescont – born in 1960, lives between Brittany and Paris – is now better known as a publisher than as a photographer. In 1988 he founded Filigranes to publish his own work and that of artists he admires, and so far has released some three hundred books featuring over two hundred photographers and as many writers. Filigranes publications are singular creative spaces offering a distinctive mix of sensibilities, ways of seeing, images and idioms. The press's first volume was Le Bescont's own Echos du Silence: Paysages du Québec en Mars, with texts by François Cheng: the serenity of these frozen rivers, vast deserted landscapes and distant horizons captured during a stay in Canada make this the standard reference on the artist's oeuvre. Especially notable is the use of subtle nuances of grey to convey the delicacy of territory where people are few. Le Bescont's work is to be found in collections including those of FNAC, France's National Library and the Brittany Region Contemporary Art Collection.



Gilou Le Gruiec
Director
Galerie Vu
Paris, France
French
Reviews: 15 h - 18 h 30, 8th and 9th of July

After an eclectic and independent career in different domains going from Rock & Roll to comics and literature, Gilou Le Griec collaborated with the VU agency from 1991 to 1997, and in 1998 she opened with Christian Caujolle the VU Gallery. She directs it since 2006.
She also organised several exhibitions of photographers of the VU Gallery in institutions or festivals abroad and in France, and since 2000, during the Rencontres d’Arles, she presents different exhibitions of VU at the Capitole.



Jean-Claude Lemagny
Curator, photography department
Bibliothèque Nationale de France
Paris, France
French
Lectures : 09h30 – 13h, 9th and 10th of July

He studied art history and has a post graduate degree in history (aggregation).
Chief curator of libraries between 1963 and 1996 in the embossment and photography department of the Bibliothèque nationale de France. At first in charge of French XVIIIthe century engraving, he then directed the XXth century photography collection after 1968.
He teaches at the Ecole du Louvre a courses of XVIIIth century engraving.



Dewi Lewis
Director
Dewi Lewis Publishing
Stockport, UK
English
Readings: 15h-18h30 the 8th of July and all day 10th  of July

The founding Director of Cornerhouse, a major UK Centre for Film and Visual Arts based in Manchester, Dewi Lewis also established Cornerhouse Publications. Then he founded his own publishing company in 1994.
Since, he has published many leading international photographers including William Klein, Martin Parr, Simon Norfolk, Paolo Pellegrin,  Tom Wood, Bruce Gilden, Frank Horvat etc.  He is also the author of  'Publishing Photography' which won PhotoEye's Resource Book of the  Year award in 1999.
Dewi Lewis is also a founding member of the Leica European Publishers Award for Photography which is now in its 15th year. This is a major collaboration between 7 publishers from 7 different European countries.
The company has also published a small fiction list and has been both shortlisted and longlisted for the prestigious Booker Prize.
Mr Lewis can bring a realistic understanding of the world market for photography to photographers. The company's titles are sold worldwide and he is in regular contact with distributors and booksellers throughout the world.



Christophe Lunn
Collector
CORBIS OUTLINE
Paris, France
English, French
Reviews: 15h-18h30 9th and 10th, 09h30 – 13h, 11th July

Born in New York on 11 March 1966, Christophe Lunn grew up in Washington DC, where his father, Harry Lunn had a photography gallery. His early years were marked by the Civil War photographs of Mathew Brady, the splendid landscapes of Ansel Adams, the nudes of Man Ray, Bill Brandt and Paul Outerbridge, and the portraits of Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Philippe Halsman and Edward Steichen. He discovered, too, the work of Berenice Abbott, Brassaï and Walker Evans, followed the wanderings of Robert Frank, and was baffled but admiring when faced with the work of Robert Mapplethorpe and Joel-Peter Witkin. Moving to Paris, where his mother was born, he quickly discovered the French photography of the 19th century via his father's acquisitions. After passing his baccalaureate he studied comparative literature at Brown University then spent several years in the film industry. Returning to France, he worked as a film press attaché for four years and then, following his father's death, became assistant to the photo editor at a men's magazine published by Hachette Filipacchi Média. Six months later he had become chief photo editor, supervising the magazine's visuals, photo projects and photo budget for three years. He then joined Corbis as head of customer relations for Outline, the agency's celebrity portrait collection. Four years later he left Outline to follow in his father's footsteps: a gallery devoted to photography in Paris.



Vaclav Macek
Director
Central European House of Photography
Bratislava, Slovakia
English, German, Russian, Slovak
Reviews: 15h-18h30, 8th of July and 9h30-13h the 9th, 10th and 11th of July

Born 1952, Czechoslovakia, he is the co-founder of the Month of Photography Bratislava, Slovakia in 1992,  and editor in chief of the magazine IMAGO,
He is also director of the Central European House of Photography and has published numerous books on photography and film: The History of Slovak Cinema, Slovak Photography 1925 - 2000, Miro Svolik, Peter Zupnik, Dusan Hanak, etc. His main field of the interest is documentary photography.



Michel Mallard
Hyères Fashion Festival
Paris, France
English, French, Spanish
Reviews: 9h30 - 13h the 9th and 10th of July

During the past ten years, creative director, curator and photographer Michel Mallard has taken command of magazines such as L'Autre Journal, Colors, Jalouse,  Blast, L'Officiel, and Vogue Hommes International.
He has also conceived and art directed photography books for editors such as Schirmer&Mosel or Steidl (recently, those by Jonas Mekas, Candida Höfer, Thomas Ruff or Jean-Baptiste Mondino).

Since 1998, Michel Mallard curates the photography exhibitions and the contest of young photography for the Festival International de Mode et de Photographie à Hyères, numerous shows that have afterwards been hosted by the Musee d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean in Luxembourg, the Centre National de la Photographie in Paris, The Palais Galliera - Paris Museum of Fashion, The Photographers' Gallery in London, Unit-F in Vienna, The Kaosiung Museum of Contemporary Art in Taiwan.
He has been appointed guest curator of the Rencontres d'Arles, and he has directed the Biennial of Fotoseptiembre in Mexico City in 2005, participated as guest curator and speaker at the Toronto Contact Photo Festival on 2007. He organized with Raphaëlle Stopin the photographic programs for the FNAC galleries in France for 2007-2008, and opened the exhibition Terrains d'entente - Paysages contemporains at the St. Blaise Chapel Arles 2007.

Between the pictures he chooses for the pages of a magazine and those he decides to hang on a museum wall some relationships are evident, the names of photographers Kyoichi Tsuzuki, Immo Klink, Maurice Scheltens, Jonathan de Villiers, Stefan Ruiz, Jurgen Nefzger, Ari & Ellie -Exactitudes, Jacqueline Hassink, just to mention a few, tend to turn up regularly among his choices.

His art direction work was recently shown at La Force de L'Art, Grand Palais in Paris,
at the new Paris Triennial of Contemporary Art & Culture, 2006.

He is the Head of Michel Mallard Studio, the company with which he directs all the operations. The studio works in the fields related all areas of the visual language, interested in the crossroads of art & media, art directing books and magazines, realizing advertising campaigns such as Kenzo Perfumes, Jean Paul Gaultier, or Le Monde.fr,  and curating exhibitions (last one entitled Fashion in the Mirror, is due to open on July, 17 at The Photographers' Gallery, London).

He wishes to see the work of photographers for whom photography has been their main activity for at least four years.



Alessandra Mauro
Curator of Photographs
Contrasto
Roma, Italy
English, French, Italian
Reviews: 9h30-13h the 8th and 9th of July

She is journalist and artistic director of Forma, International Center of Photography, in Milan. She is also editoirial director of Contrasto Publishing House, Rome.



Mary McClean
Director
Mary McClean Art & Photo Research
New York, USA
English, French
Reviews: 15h-18h30, 8th, 9th and 10th July

Mary McClean specializes in finding images for book covers.  Both within the Knopf Art Dept. at Random House in New York, and also working independently with most major book publishers in the the US (and some in Europe), she applies a professional background in graphic arts and art history to her search for compelling imagery for book jackets.  In past years, she has been a reviewer at Center Santa Fe, Photolucida’s Critical.
Mass, Powerhouse Books Portfolio Review, and Atlanta Celebrates Photography.
She is interested in seeing fine-art portfolios and personal work;
http://www.pdngallery.com/contests/pixdigital/2004/judges.htm

 


Krzysztof Miekus
Curator
Transfotografia International Photo Festival in Gdansk
Warsaw, Poland
English, French, Polish
Reviews: 09h30 – 13h/ 10th, 11th and 15h-18h30, the 9th, 12th of July

Born in Warsaw (1975), photographer, curator, critic, lecturer. Graduate from Philosophy of the University of Warsaw, Studium Fotografii ZPAF (School of Photography of the Polish Association of Artists Photographers) and Szkola Reportazu Collegium Civitas (School of Reportage of the Collegium Civitas).
Lives and works in Warsaw.
From 2003 – 2006 editor and editor in chief of Pozytyw magazine - the prime Polish monthly magazine concerned with documentary and art photography. Member of ZPAF (Polish Association of Artists Photographers) since 2006. He was General Curator of Transfotografia Festival 2007 (Gdansk - Gdynia – Sopot, Poland). In 2006 he worked as curator of Yours Gallery (Warsaw).
Curated numerous exhibitions including Update. Review of the Polish photography – a multimedia project commissioned by Krakow’s Photomonth (Poland) involving 84 contemporary artists and photographers; Teraz Polska group exhibition (32 contemporary Polish photographers); Leo Fabrizio Bunkers; Michael Ackerman Half Life; Thibaut Cuisset Absolutely Outside; Yann Mingard & Alban Kakulya East of a New Eden; Michael von Graffenried War Without Image; Andrzej Kramarz & Weronika Lodzinska Home; Klavdij Sluban Other Shores; Krzysztof Pruszkowski La Lecture; James Whitlow Delano Mangaland; Tomas Munita Kabul – Going out of Shadow.
Krzysztof Miekus is staff lecturer History of Photography and Documentary Photography) at Europejska Akademia Fotografii (European Academy of Photography) in Warsaw since 2004.
He published (with writer / journalist Adam Leszczynski) a book concerning the cultural, economical and social background of the HIV / AIDS epidemic in Africa – Naznaczeni – Afryka i AIDS (Warszawa, TRIO 2003).
Krzysztof Miekus has been collaborating with Krakow’s Photomonth since 2006, Photo Sittcomm Award (since 2006), Sirius Arts Centre (Ireland), Zacheta National Gallery (Warsaw), Gazeta Wyborcza (Poland).



Salvador Nadales
Curator
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
Madrid, Spain
Spanish, Italian, Portuguese (English and Greek understood)
Reviews : 15.00-18.30, 8th and 9th of July

He is curator at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (MNCARS), in Madrid. He has a diploma in history of arts of the Complutense University of Madrid and graduated in museum studies at the Florence University in Italy. After having collaborated with various museums et joined in 1998, the State curators. He worked with museum to the coordination and administration of collections and temporary exhibitions for the ministry of Culture and Defence. He was also curator of the exhibition Descubiertas and in December 2005 he joined the photography department of the MNCARS.



Jean-Jacques Naudet 
Editor at large
American Photo
New York, USA
English, French
Reviews: 15h-18h30, 8th and 12th of July

From 1971 to 1987 Jean-Jacques Naudet was editor of the French magazine Photo. In 1987 he curated an exhibition in Bagatelle titled “Jardins secrets de photographes”. He has worked on three books “Marlene Dietrich”, “Marilyn Monroe” and “Photographic icons of the 20th century”. Since 1987 he is correspondant in the USA for the Hachette Filipacchi group as editor of American Photo magazine.



Grazia Neri
Artistic director
Agenzia Grazia Neri
Milan - Italy
Italian, French, English
Reviews: 09h30 – 13h the 11th of July

After working at Newsblitz photoagency, Grazia Neri, set up her own photography business in 1966 by representing the newborn French agency Gamma. Since then, Grazia Neri has enjoyed the trust of some of the most renowned photographers, magazines and agencies such as Sygma, Contact Press images, Matrix, Network, Rapho, Vu, Polaris, VII. In 1997, she opened her gallery in Milan but also organizes exhibition in Italy.
She tutors and lectures on photojournlism and is regularly invited to take part in the juries of international competitions. She regularly writes for the on-line monthly The Digital Journalist. Her agency has been more recently involved in producing photography books and catalogues in collaboration with some of the best Italian publishers such as Leonardo Mondadori/Electa, Federico Motta Editore, Les Cinq Continents.



Johanna Neurath
Director
Thames and Hudson Ltd.
London, UK
English
Reviews: 09h30 – 13h the 10th and 11th of July

Johanna Neurath is Design Director at Thames & Hudson publishers, London. She has worked in book publishing for more than 20 years as an art director, book designer and picture editor. She trained in typography at the London College of Printing.
Working closely with many artists, photographers and fashion designers such as David Hockney, Richard Long, David Bailey, Michael Wolf and Christian Lacroix she has helped realise their ideas into successful books. In 2006 she commissioned and edited the first big illustrated book about amateur photography and the internet: "fotolog.book". Most recently she has overseen the design and picture editing of Philippe Chancel's "North Korea" (2007), "Magnum Magnum" (2007), Reuters: Our World Now (2008) and Manuel Alvarez Bravo which will publish in Autumn 2008.
She is also an active member of the London Street Photography community. In 2006 she was invited to take part in the Photofusion gallery show 'Onto the Streets'. The show was sponsored by the British Council and subsequently went on tour to various venues throughout Europe during 2007.



Christine Ollier
Artistic Director
Filles du Calvaire Gallery
Paris, France
French
Reviews: 15h-18h30, 9th and 10th of July

After graduating with a degree in communication and a former antique dealer, Ollier works as an art historian and curator. After running a gallery in New York from 1990 to 1993 she became artistic director of the gallery Les filles du calvaire in Paris and Brussels when it was created in 1996. Interested in reviewing contemporary art photography. She is not interested in reportage, traditional photography or nudes.



Nathalie Ours
Independant Curator
On Consulting
Paris, France
English, Italian
Reviews: 09h30 – 13h the 8th of July

After learning Japanese during three years, Nathalie Ours left Paris for Tokyo to work with Yohji Yamamoto where she was coordinator of foreign press offices. She collaborated to the coordination of Wim Wenders’ film with Yohji Yamamoto, Carnet de notes sur vêtements et villes in 1989.
Aftrer two years in Tokyo she returned to Paris and became press agent. She organised fashion shows and  advertising campaigns in collaboration with the artistic director Marc Ascoli and the photographs Max Vadukul and Nick Knight.
In 1992 she became director of communication and directed the press offices of Paris, London and New York. She supervised the organisation of fashion shows and artistic choices for the advertizing campains or catalogs with the artistic director Irène Silvagni.
During these years she worked with photographs such as David Sims, Paolo Roversi, Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin, Graig McDean , Ferdinando Scianna form the Magnum agency, Max Vadukul, Nathaniel Goldberg and the artistic directors Marc Ascoli, MM Paris, Luca stoppini (Vogue Italy), Paul Boudens, Claudio Dell’olio.
In 2001 she collaborated to the edition and coordination of Yohji Yamamoto’s Talking to Myself and to the exhibition « May I help you » in the European House of Photography under the direction of Carla Sozzani.
In 2005 she was project manager for two monographic exhibitions dedicated to Yamamoto as an invited collaborator of the Pitti imagine foundation, Florence, Italy : « Correspondances » and for the Musée des arts décoratifs, Paris, « Juste des vêtements».
During this year she left Yamamoto’s agency to open her own office of communication advise On consulting and continues to collaborate with Yamamoto.
In September 2007 she opened the PR consulting office in Paris with New York associates


Jean-Marc Patras
Director / Consultant
Jean-Marc Patras Gallery / Center of International Business
Paris, France
French, English
Reviews: Dates and times to be confirmed

After studying law, he participated to the creation of new concert tours for young international bands, and then joined the magazine Actuel to contribute actively to the success of World Music.
Jean Marc Patras is an international consultant for the CCI (Center of International Business) in marketing of contemporary africain art. He is a specialist of contemporary non occidental art and an agent of artists : he gives them advice to developp their career in a wide range of sectors and markets in the whole world.
He lives in Paris where he opened his first gallery in 1987. Two years later, in the exhibition « Magiciens de la Terre » at the Centre Georges Pompidou he showed Chéri Samba’s work for the first time. A long list of exhibitions of non occidental artists followed him, mainly Africain.



Mario Peliti
Editor
Peliti Associati/ Magnum
Roma, Italy
English, Italian
Reviews: 9h30-13h, 9th, 10th and 11th of July

Born in 1958, publisher and communication consultant. Né en 1958, éditeur et consultant en communication. Between 1995 and 2002 he directed the Galleria Minima Peliti Associati. He founded the European Publishers Award for Photography which will enter it’s fifteenth edition this year. He published over 70 titles. Il lives and works in Rome.



Pascal Philippe
Courrier International
Paris, France
English, French, Spanish
Reviews : 15h-18h30, 10th of July and 9h30-13h, 11th and 12th of July

He is director of the images department (photography and drawing) which he created and developed for the weekly newspaper Courrier International (Paris). He is also professor at the Ecole Supérieure d’Arts Graphiques (ESAG-Penninghen, Paris) and collaborates with photographie.com. His articles, interventions and recent personal research are oriented around the theme of space and picture or photographic reception with Alec Soth, Guy Tillim, and Michael Subotsky. He is currently working on: «  Marcel Proust : la transparence et l’éclat ».



James Reid
Wallpaper Magazine
Editor
London, UK
English
Reviews : 9.30-13.00 10th of June, 15.00-18.30 11th of June

As Photography Editor of Wallpaper* he works with world-renowned and talented young photographers to collaborate on a wide array of stories and commissions. He particularly likes working with innovative young photographers, giving them their first editorial commissions and encouraging them with their personal vision – people such as Dan Tobin Smith, Joël Tettamanti and Erwan Frotin who have gone on to become young stars of the photography world.
He has contacts with various photographic departments at art colleges in Europe and keeps a keen eye on the work students are producing.
In 2006 he curated and mounted a show in London of talented, emerging photographers from around the world, called The New Landscape.
Along with the Art Director Loran Stosskopf he helped produce a monthly magazine for the French art college Le Quai which promotes art and photography in the Alsace Region of France and Germany. He has been on the selection panel and jury of various European photographic festivals including Selection VFG and Showcase.

  


Benoit Rivero
Director
Actes Sud/Photo Poche
Arles, France
French, English
Reviews: 9h30-13h, 11th and 12th of July



Markus Schaden
Director
Schaden Publishing
Cologne, Allemagne
English, German
Reviews: 9h30-13h, 9th of July and 15h-18h30, 10th of July

Born in 1965, he lives in Cologne Germany. He works as bookseller and publisher.
Since 1995 he runs the Schaden Verlag Publisher with his brother, they published 76 books since 1998. He is also director of Schaden.com, a photobook store in Cologne, specialized in rare new photobooks and limitid Editions.
He worked in Paris, New York, Los Angeles and for Art Cologne and the Tokyo Art Fair.



Maarten Schilt
Publisher
Mets & Schilt Publishers
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
English, French, German, Dutch
Reviews: 15h-18h30, 9th, 10th and 11th of July

Maarten Schilt is a publisher of high profile mainly journalistic, documentary and reportage photo books, as well as reportage photo magazines (The Issue and The Aftermath Magazine). Mets & Schilt is since 2008 also the leading publisher of the World Press Photo Yearbook. Schilt is very active on the international co-production market and is a member of the group of seven European photo book publishers which yearly grants the Leica European Publishers Award for Photography.
Photographers published or being published by Mets & Schilt are, amongst others: Dave Anderson, Jonas Bendiksen, Marcus Bleasdale, Chris de Bode, Wolf Böwig, Heidi Bradner, Jodi Bieber, Frédéric Brenner, Rachel Corner, Carl De Keyzer, Thomas Dworzak, Rena Effendi, Julio Etchart, Jim Goldberg, Arlene Gottfried, Stanley Greene, Martijn van de Griendt, Harry Gruyaert, Roberta Holden, Hana Jakrlová, Ata Kandó, Oleg Klimov, Robert Knoth, Josef Koudelka, Kadir van Lohuizen, Rania Matar, Jenny Matthews, Paolo Pellegrin, Ahmet Polat, Guus Rijven, Ilse Schrama, Lana Šlezic, Sara Terry, Ambroise Tezénas, Carin Verbruggen, Alex Webb, Paul Weinberg.
April 2008 Mets & Schilt also started a new activity, the Lux Photo Gallery, situated next to the publishing house. This gallery provides a worldwide infrastructure mainly for photographers being published by Mets & Schilt to sell prints and special edition books.
For further information please see the following websites: www.metsenschilt.com; www.luxphotogallery.com; www.europeanphotopublishers.eu.
Although Schilt is mainly interested in seeing the kind of photography which he publishes, he can and will be helpful to photographers working in other fields.



Lars Schwander
Director
Fotografisk Center
Copenhagen, Denmark
English, French
Reviews: all day 8th of July

Director of Photographic Center, member of AICA (Association Internationale des Critiques d’Art), board member of the Finnish Culture Institute in Copenhagen, Photographer (listed in Weilbach’s Artist Encyclopedia), writer, and . 2006-2007 artistic consultant for the Hasselblad Center, Gothenburg, Sweden, in the jury of International Color Awards (London/Beverly Hills, Californien, 2007), in the nomination group for Infinity Awards 2007 (ICP/Getty Foundation, New York, 2007), in the jury for Hasselblad Award (Gothenburg, Sweden, 2007), in the jury of Prix BMW (Paris Photo, Paris, 2006), in the jury of Fogtdal’s Prize for photographers (Copenhagen, 2005-), in the nomination group for Deutsche Börse Prize [City Bank Prize] (Photographer’s Gallery, London, 2004-2006), 2001-02 consultant for Bruun-Rasmussen’s Art Auctions, Copenhagen; 1999-04 member of the exhibition group at Louisiana MoMA, Humlebæk; 1996- founder and director of Photographic Center, Copenhagen; 1994 assistant first librarian, picture collection at the Royal Library, Copenhagen; 1992-94 subject adviser, picture collection at the Royal Library, Copenhagen; 1986-88 press secretary at Kunsthallen and the Museum of Photographic Art, Brandts Klædefabrik, Odense.
Lars Schwander has published several books, among these “Manuel Alvarez Bravo - A Day in April 1999” (One Picture Book, Nazraeli Press, 2008) and “Artist Portraits” (Rhodos, 2001) as well as contributed to more than 50 books including: Lars von Trier Interviews (University Press of Mississippi, 2003); Arnold Newman (Louisiana MoMA, 2003);; YES - Yoko Ono (Abrams, New York, 2000); Stardust - Annie Leibovitz 1970-1999 (Louisiana MoMA, 2000); Yoko Ono - Conceptual Photography (Photographic Center, 1997).



Laura Serani
Independant curator
Paris - France
Italian, French, English
Readings: 15h-18h30, 9th and 09h30 – 13h the 10th and 11th of July

Very active on the European photography scene for over 20 years , Laura Serani is currently artistic director of Savignano Foto Fest in Italy. She is also artistic producer of the 2008 « Mois de la Photo » in Paris (Photography Month) and international artistic director of the multimedia project « Territoires de Fictions » (Territories of Fiction).  Director from 1985 to 2005 of the Fnac Photo Galleries  and audiovisual department, both for France and internationally, Laura Serani was instrumental in constituting the Fnac Photographic Collection and has curated numerous important exhibitions held in the Fnac stores and “beyond its walls” in prestigious venues such as the Conciergerie and the Senate in Paris, the Capitolini museum in Rome, the Muvim museum in Valencia… Laura Serani was also one of the creators  of the “Fnac European Photography Prize” and the multidisciplinary video magazine  “Fnac Sequence”.
Laura Serani regularly collaborates with major festivals and institutions and publishes articles and catalogues such as “Photography between History and Poetry”, Mazzotta Publishers, 2002 and “Indianscope”, Lille 2006.
After studies in Rome and Paris majoring in arts, history, philosophy and cinema, Laura Serani lives between Paris and Italy.



Jason Shenai
Director
Millenium Images
London, UK
English, French, Italian
Readings: 09h30 – 13h the 10th  and 11th of July

Jason Shenai started life as freelance photographer regularly working for a variety of magazines and newspapers including The Observer and The Sunday Telegraph. In the early 1990s Jason started Inside Eye, a project run within Wandsworth Prison which helped prisoners to document their lives in photography.   A highly successful touring exhibition of the work was first shown at The Photographers’ Gallery,  London.  At around the same time he also started teaching at Westminster University.  Jason currently regularly lectures at several of the UK’s top  university photographics courses.
Jason is photography judge on The Koestler Awards.  He regularly reviews photographers’ portfolios at  event such as the Arles Festival, Rhubarb Rhubarb and  Mois de la Photographie (Paris.). His current photography project is a book on the wines of South-West France,the third in series of collaborations with the writer Paul Strang.  Jason was one of the three partners of FrameZero Gallery in London until its closure in 2006.
Jason is  founder and director of Millennium Images which specialises in selling reproduction rights in contemporary photography. Millennium is now recognized as one of the leading image resources worldwide, representing the work of more than 400 creative photographers  (www.milim.com).



Bruce Silverstein
Director
Bruce Silverstein Gallery
New York, USA
English, Italian
Reviews: 11th and 12th of July

Bruce Silverstein, 40, has been involved with photography since his earlychildhood. As the son of Larry Silver, a photographer and member of thePhoto League, Bruce spent much of his time studying and observing the photographic process and was also encouraged to freely pursue his creativeinclination through drawing and sculpture. In 1991, Bruce became an activecollector of rare vintage photography. His passion for collecting vintage photography truly culminated in 2001 when he opened a small photography gallery called "The Bruce Silverstein Gallery" in Chelsea, New York. In this space Bruce specialized in revitalizing the careers of mid- and late-career artists as well as representing the estates of well-known master photographers including Andre Kertesz and Barbara Morgan. In 2004, the gallery expanded by re-locating to 535 West 24th Street under the name “Silverstein Photography.” This newly developed, 5000 square foot, ground floor exhibition space enabled the gallery to continue to show photographic masterworks from the 19th and 20th century, while increasing its representation of of contemporary photographers. In June 2007, Bruce Silverstein was featured in the Wall Street Journal, in an article entitled "Turning a Longtime Passion into a Profitable New Career." In April 2008, “Silverstein Photography / 20” was established at 529 West 20th Street, and is dedicated to showing emerging artists of all ages. 



Sabine Spilles
Editor
Camera Austria
Cologne, Allemagne
English, German
Reviews: 09h30-13h, 8th, 9th of July

Born in 1973, she now lives in Graz and Berlin. Until 1998 she worked as a photographer. Until 2005 she studied comparative literature with focus on media theory.
Since 2007 she is editor of Camera Austria.



Andrew Squires
Editor
Journal of the Photographic Society
UK  - France
English, French,
Reviews: 15h-18h30, 8th, 9th and10th of July

An English photographer working in France, teacher of photography to Art & Design students at the University of the West of England, Workshops in the U.K. and the ‘Rencontres Internationales de laPhotographie’ 84, in Arles. Contributer to the Journal of the Royal
Photographic Society.
For the past 13 years he has been giving International Workshops in the village of Ansouis, where he now lives. He has exhibited in England and Belgium & has work in private collections in France, Holland & the Musee d’Art et d’ Histoire, Fribourg, Suisse.



Laetitia Talbot
Independent exhibition curator
Paris, France
French, English, Italian
Reviews: 09h30 – 13h, 10th and 11th of July

Laetitia Talbot has been director of two contemporary art spaces in Bourges (France) and Rome. She currently curates photography exhibitions as well as for contemporary art. In collaboration with the French Institute in Valencia, Spain, Talbot  receives various commissions to conceive exhibitions for the region and Italy.
Exhibited at the Arena gallery (part of the National School of Photography) in Arles this year and co-curated with Muriel Toulemonde, the show « Regarder » will present amongst its selection the work of Jeff Wall and Mark Lewis.



Corinne Tapia
Director
Sous les Etoiles
New York, USA
English
Reviews: 09h30 – 13h, 10th and 11th of July

Corinne Tapia is the director of Sous Les Etoiles Gallery, located in Soho NYC.
For the past 20 years she has worked in the photography world as a collector and consultant. In France Corinne Tapia was involved as a fund-raising partner to allow the "Visages du Jazz" Exhibition to be part of the Galeries Fnac, from 1995 to 2005.
Living in New York since 2001, she welcomes in her Gallery young and confirmed photographers with different nationalities and backgrounds. The gallery has held exhibitions for Scott Benedict, Alexandra Catiere, Matt Hoyle, Mark Fina, Pat Kurs, Jean-Michel Berts, Fumio Tanai, Ronan Guillou.. and is planning an average of 6 exhibitions a year.
The Gallery participates to several photo and art fairs around United States and is currently under a few photography projects with the City of New York.



Wim van Sinderen
Senior curator
Hague Museum of Photography
The Hague, The Netherlands
Reviews: 09h30-13h, 9th and 10th of July

Wim van Sinderen (b. 1958) is senior curator of the Hague Museum of Photography and keeper of the photographic collection of the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag. He has organised numerous retrospective exhibitions of the work of such figures as Edward Steichen, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Erwin Blumenfeld, Loretta Lux, and Michael Najjar. He is chief editor of the anthology Photographers in the Netherlands 1852-2002.


Luis Venegas
Fanzine137
Madrid, Spain
French, English, Spanish and Italian

Being a child his family moves to Barcelona. There he studies fashion design and when finished works for Thierry Mugler in Paris and later with Sybilla in Madrid. Being a passionate lover of images, art and photography, starts to collaborate with magazines as a freelance photographer and writer. Contributes to Acne Paper, Butt magazine, Dazed & Confused, El País, etc. 

In 2002 he establishes himself as an art director and works for some fashion brands such as Loewe and Carolina Herrera. In 2005 he works for a year as art director of Marie Claire's magazine (Spanish edition).

In 2004 he started his main professional project, his first own magazine: Fanzine137. It is an independent limited edition publication about art, image, fashion and people. One of the keys to Fanzine137’s style is mixing top-name personal artwork with young talent on the verge of discovery, alongside legendary, mythical artists rarely featured in today’s magazines. Fanzine137 is considered a kind of best-kept-secret for insiders, for all those people who love images and enjoy looking for special projects in printed paper.

In April 2008 his new editorial project is born, a special teenage magazine called Electric Youth !. Since 2005 Luis Venegas is also a teacher of contemporary culture at the main fashion institute in Madrid.



Gilles Verneret
Director
Bleu du Ciel Gallery
Lyon  - France
French
Reviews: 15h-18h30, 8th, 10th of July and 09h30 – 13h the 11th of July

Born in 1950. Lives and works in Lyon. Photographer at FR3 Television in Lyon from 1975–81, then freelance. Some thirty solo and group exhibitions in France, several books, commissions and grants from various institutions, works acquired by public collections.
Has taught photography off and on since 1982, mostly to young people. For the last five years has directed the photography workshops for the Recherches & Promotion social welfare training scheme. Teacher at the Catholic University in Lyon in 2003–05 and at the Université de Savoie since 2006. In 1999 founded (and still runs) the Bleu du Ciel contemporary photography centre with the backing of the City of Lyon, the Rhône-Alpes DRAC and Regional Council. Is also the organiser of the Septembre de la Photographie biennial in Lyon, in partnership with the Biennale de la Danse and the City of Lyon. Has already presented some fifty exhibitions by, among others, Antoine D’agata, Christophe Bourguedieu, Elina Brotherus, Philippe Chancel, Bruno Serralongue, Hans Van der Meer, Mathieu Pernot and Bernard Plossu. Has written the texts for ten monographs on artists including Patrice Giorda, Eric Dessert, Claude Nori, Richard Dumas, Bogdan Konopka and Rebecca Wilton.
Edited the series 24 Images for Editions Lieux Dits, and in 2005 launched the series Le Traitement Contemporain.



Bas Vroege
Co-ordinator Curatorial Training Programme - Kunsten Faculty
Edam, Netherlands
French, English, German, Dutch
Reviews: 09h30-13h, 9th, 10th and 11th of July

Bas Vroege studied economics at Erasmus University Rotterdam (1976-1979) and photography at St. Joost Academy in Breda (1979-1981).
From 1981-1993 he was director of Perspektief, centre for photography in Rotterdam and the Fotografie Biënnale Rotterdam (1988-1992), realising three editions of this festival. He has been director of Paradox (www.paradox.nl) since 1993. Paradox produces photography related projects (exhibitions, books, films, websites) driven by a social agenda, such as Go No Go (on migration in Europe, with photographer Ad van Denderen).
As a photographer and curator, Bas Vroege has been responsible for a number of cross-media festivals and exhibitions such as: Obsessions – From Wunderkammer to Cyberspace (Foto Biennale Enschede, 1995), Digital territories (Rotterdam Festivals/DEAF, 1996), Avatar (dealing with the notion of the multiple personality in digital society, 1998, Amsterdam) and EXPERIENCE (Foto Biennale Rotterdam, 2003). For the University of Sunderland (UK) and the International Photography Research Network (IPRN), he curated a symposium on the representation of work in photography in 2005. He is currently involved in the project Oswiecim Now, dealing with the post-war history of  Auschwitz.
As an advisor he has worked for several institutions such as the Mondriaan Foundation (1993-1995), The Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture (1998-2001), the MFA photography programme at St. Joost Academy in Breda (1999-2002), the bachelor photography program of the Royal Academy of Arts, The Hague (2002-2004). In 1995-1996 he was part of the committee appointed by the Council for Advanced Studies that reviewed the visual arts educational institutions in the Netherlands. He became a member of the Supervisory Board of World Press Photo in 2006.



Caroline Warhurst
Director
Dewi Lewis Publishing
Stockport – UK
English
Readings: 15h-18h30 the 8th of July and all day 10th of July

Caroline Warhurst has been a partner of Dewi Lewis Publishing since 1996, and is involved in all aspects of the business including editorial decisions. She worked at Manchester Studies and the Documentary Photography Archive from 1976 to 1988 commissioning new work from, among others, Martin Parr, Clement Cooper and Tom Wood. The post also involved running a central Manchester photography gallery, initiating exhibitions from the archive on a community level as well as national touring exhibitions. Caroline also ran her own company
publishing photographic and design greeting cards.



Hannah Watson
Editor
Trolley LTD
London, UK
English
Readings: all day 11th of July; 15h-18h30 the 12th of July

Background in art and journalism, with a particular interest in photography, lead to current position at Trolley. Has since been working for over two years both on the photography books published by Trolley, and the contemporary art exhibitions held at Trolley Gallery in London. Continue to write freelance about contemporary art and photography. 



Alain Willaume
Independant photographer, curator, artistic director
Paris - France
French, English, German
Reviews: 15h-18h30, 11th of July and all day 12th of July

Born in 1956. Lives and works in Paris.
Photographer, curator of the Indian photography section in Arles 2007, artistic director for photography at the Textuel publishing house (directed the photography anthology “India Now “ to be released in July), recipient of the Kodak Critics Prize, he also teaches photography at the Strasbourg School of Decorative Arts since 2003, and gives photography workshops in France and abroad.
Alain Willaume has developed a singular body of work interconnected with the world that he has traveled through and observed for many years. Influenced by long journeys and on the margin of main currents, he draws up a personal cartography made of enigmatic images that tell of the world’s violence and vulnerability and the humains who live there.  He alternates between long-term personal projects and assignments.



Rhonda Wilson
Creative Director
Rhubarb Rhubarb
Birmingham, UK
English
Reviews: 15h-18h30 the 9th of July and 09h30 – 13h, 10th and 11th of July

Rhonda Wilson is the Creative Director of Rhubarb-Rhubarb, the UK's International Portfolio Review. She works throughout the year with photographers at all stages of their creative and economic development, bringing in experts from around the world - gallerists, art publishers and collectors. Wilson has reviewed portfolios at Fotofest - Houston, Fotofo - Bratislava, Arte Photo - Brasilia, Photo Espagne - Madrid, Contact - Toronto, and written for Katalog, Portfolio, British Journal of Photography, Profifoto, Creative Camera and Ten.8 magazines.
She is the author of 'Seeing The Light ' The Photographers Guide to Enterprise and has curated shows for The New Art Gallery  Walsall UK, the Rhubarb-Rhubarb Festival and Lianzhou Festival, China, 2007.



Denise Wolff
Commissioning Editor for Photography 
Phaidon Press
London, UK 
English
Reviews: 09h30 – 13h, 10th and 11th of July

Denise Wolff commissions the photography books for Phaidon Press, the world’s leading publisher of books on the visual arts. Phaidon books are recognized for their innovation and beauty and for the highest quality of content, design, and production. As an editor, Denise has had the opportunity to work on many beautiful books with the world’s top photographers, including Eugene Richards, Joel Meyerowitz, Martin Parr, Mary Ellen Mark, Steve McCurry and Stephen Shore to name a few. She is based in London. 



Natacha Wolinski
Photography Specialist
Beaux Arts Magazine
Paris, France
English, French
Reviews: 15h-18h30 the 9th of July  and 09h30 – 13h, 11th

A freelance journalist specialising in contemporary art and photography, Natasha Wolinski is a regular contributor to Beaux-Arts, Marie-Claire and Air France Magazine. She also works for the national radio network France Culture, where she has been producer of the monthly photography broadcast "Mat ou Brillant" for the last five years.



Manfred Zollner
Director of Photography
FotoMAGAZIN
Hamburg, Germany.
German, English, French
Reviews: 09h30 – 13h, 8th, 9th, 10th and 11th July

Director of Photography at the Hamburg based monthly fotoMAGAZIN, one of the top selling photography periodicals in Germany, with an almost 60 year tradition.
For the past 15 years he has published numerous articles on trends in photography and features on photographers. He is also author of the book “Von Autofokus zu Out of Focus. Fototrends der 90er Jahre“ (1997). 2002-2005 he was Editor in Chief of the bi-monthly periodical “Photo Technik International“. Manfred Zollner has a degree in Mass Communications from Munich University .
At the portfolio reviews he is particularily interested in finding signature style work from any field of professional photography, images with a singular, individual approach.
He is looking for photos to publish in 6-8 page portfolios, and/ or limited Fine Art editions of 20, that to be published in cooperation with fotoMAGAZIN (editions of the past e. g. with Loretta Lux, Andreas H.Bitesnich, Terry Vine and Dave Anderson). Also simply looking for promising young photographers to be introduced in the “young talents” pages of fotoMAGAZIN.


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