Christophe Berthoud
Born in 1965 in Choisy-le-Roi. Lives and works in Marseille.
ENSP 1992 Christophe Berthoud, a historian of photography who graduated from ENSP in 1992, has collaborated on numerous monographs, including Roger Parry, le météore fabuleux (The Fabulous Meteor, Marval, 1996), Raymond Voinquel – Les acteurs du rêve (Actors of the dream, Seuil / Éditions du patrimoine, 1997), and Jean Marquis (CRP, 2001). In 2007 he published the essay ‘Banality, another of photography’s achievements’ as part of the book Roger Parry – photographs, drawings, page designs (Gallimard/Jeu de Paume). He took part in launching the magazine Infra-mince (ENSP/Actes Sud), of which he was managing editor until 2006. He has published other essays on contemporary photography, worked as editor on a collections catalogue for the Museum of Contemporary Art of Marseille, and participated in interviews with Alain Desvergnes, founder and first director of ENSP, for the book Paysages portraits – Portraits paysages (Landscape portraits – portrait landscapes), Diaphane Editions, 2010). His essay on Bernard Plossu’s ‘photogrammes’ will be published in June, 2012 by Yellow Now: 8 / Super 8.