Audrey Hoareau has been director of the CRP/Hauts-de-France Regional Centre of Photography since September 2021. She has been an independent curator since 2016. She began her career in 2004 in the collections of the Musée Nicéphore Niépce in Chalon-sur-Saône, where she worked for thirteen years. In 2017, she took part in the creation of the first public photography museum in China, the Lianzhou Museum of Photography. She was artistic director of the Circulation(s) festival at Centquatre-Paris from 2019 to 2020 and of the Photo Basel fair from 2019 to 2021.