Pascal Beausse is in charge of photography collections at the Centre National des Arts Plastiques in Paris. A curator and art critic, he teaches history and photographic theory at HEAD, the elite School of Art and Design in Geneva. He also conducts research in the laboratory of the Curatorial/Knowledge program at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Laureate of the Villa Kujoyama—Institut Français/Franco- Japanese Institute of Kansaï; he participated in a research and arts residency in Kyoto in 2007.