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  François Hébel

  Curator

  (English/French)

  

  François Hébel

  Curator

  (English/French)

  Born in 1964. Hébel is a producer and curator of more than 1000 exhibitions, books, educational initiatives, slide and live shows on the five continents, and worked with photographers for 42 years. He was an early collaborator of now major artists such as Martin Parr, Nan Goldin, JR, Robert Doisneau, Wang Qingsong, Paul Graham, Raymond Depardon, Annie Leibovitz, Sebastiao Salgado, Harry Gruyaert, Alfredo Jaar, Zanele Muholi, Henri Cartier-Bresson and more, and has made many initiatives at early stages of digital photography.
  Hébel was the Director at Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson (2017–2022), Initiator and art director of the first Month of Photography of the Grand Paris (April 2017), art director / co-founder of the Biennale Foto/Industria in Bologna, Italy (2013, 2015, 20170 and art director of “French Protocol” program at FIAF Gallery, New-York (2015–2018). He is also the former director of The Rencontres d’Arles (1986, 1987 and 2001–2014), co-founder or advisor of photo festivals in Beijing (2010/2013) and New-Delhi (2010, 2011), former vice-president of Corbis Photo Agency (2000–2001), former director of Magnum Photos Paris and International (1987–2000), and former director of FNAC Stores galleries (1983–1985). Administrator of Retail and Connexions (a French Railways SNCF subsidiary).

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  Thyago Nogueira

  Chief editor of ZUM photography magazine

  (English/French)

  

  Thyago Nogueira

  Chief editor of ZUM photography magazine

  (English/French)

  Thyago Nogueira (São Paulo, Brazil, 1976) is the head of the Contemporary Photography Department at Instituto Moreira Salles, Brazil and the chief editor of ZUM photography magazine. He organized exhibitions and catalogues such as Claudia Andujar: The Yanomami Struggle (2018-2022), William Eggleston: American Color (2015), Body Against Body: the battle of images from photography to live streaming (2017), Mauro Restiffe: São Paulo, Beyond Reach (2014) and Rosângela Rennó: Utopic Rio (2017). He has guest edited Aperture magazine dedicated to São Paulo city (2014), co-curated Offside project with Magnum during Brazil’s World Cup, and chaired Hasselblad Award in 2019. Daido Moriyama: a retrospective is on view at Instituto Moreira Salles, São Paulo, until August 2022.

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  Sayaka Takahashi

  Director of PGI

  (Japanese)

  

  Sayaka Takahashi

  Director of PGI

  (Japanese)

  Sayaka Takahashi (based in Japan) is the director of PGI.
  She studied under the photography critic HIRAKI Osamu at Waseda University.
  In 1998, participated in the Higashikawa International Photo Festival as a volunteer, and
  from this experience she developed an interest in curating, conservation and installation.
  Began working in the field of photography at PGI a gallery in Tokyo in this year in its department
  of conservation, framing and installation.
  Between 2003 and 2010, she worked for the Higashikawa International Photo Festival as
  an assistant director.
  Since 2010, she started her career as the director of PGI, she has worked with many of
  the most celebrated postwar photographers – in particular Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Kikuji Kawada.
  She is placing emphasis on introducing Japanese photography to the world and on finding
  new talent.

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  Hyunjung Son

  Curator, Culture Headquarters Seoul Metropolitan Government

  (English/Korean)

  

  Hyunjung Son

  Curator, Culture Headquarters Seoul Metropolitan Government

  (English/Korean)

  Since 2016 she’s been working as a curator for establishing　Photography, Seoul Museum of Art, Korea’s first public Museum for photography, where she has developed the Korean Photography Collection and Research. She is interested in contemporary art activities based on a photographic medium and researching photographic images and photographers who are alienated from existing photography or art discourse.
  
  She recently curated The Portfolio, Seoul(Art Archives, SeMA, Seoul, 2023), The Printed World, (Buk-Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, 2022), The Photography, Seoul Museum of Art Pre-opening Program. She served as curator and coordinator of Daegu International Photo Festival “Photographics”(2012) and SEOUL PHOTO FESTIVAL(2013~2015): “Portraits of our time 1883~2013(2013)”, “The Birth of Seoul’s Visual Space: Hanseong, Gyeongseong, Seoul(2014)”, “The Photographers in the Library(2015)”. She also has served as an editing manager at IANNBOOKS, the contemporary art book publisher in Korea.

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  Clothilde Morette

  Artistic Director of MEP (Maison Européenne de la Photographie)

  (English/French)

  

  Clothilde Morette

  Artistic Director of MEP (Maison Européenne de la Photographie)

  (English/French)

  Clothilde Morette is Artistic Director of MEP (Maison Européenne de la Photographie), Paris.
  Her responsibilities include overseeing of the exhibition and events programmes, as well as curatorial direction of The Studio: MEP’s exhibition space dedicated to emerging talent. Recent projects at MEP have included curating the major retrospective of artist Samuel Fosso; Rineke Dijkstra’s exhibition I See You; and Viviane Sassen’s acclaimed solo show Phosphor: Art and Fashion, which will tour internationally. She is currently working on a major thematic show at MEP about film, photography and ecology. Clothilde Morette also practices independently as both critic and curator, with research interest in relations between literary narratives and both historic and contemporary art. She is a founding editor of the forthcoming magazine LEONORA, which explores affinities between the short stories of Leonora Carrington and contemporary artistic practice.

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  Junya Utsumi

  Curator of Artizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation, Tokyo

  (Japanese/English)

  

  Junya Utsumi

  Curator of Artizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation, Tokyo

  (Japanese/English)

  Born in Tokyo, 1990. Acquired the master’s degree from Department of Arts Studies and Curatorial Practices of the Graduate School of Global Arts at Tokyo University of the Arts, with the Larus prize. After working at Koganecho Area Management Center, he is currently an in-house curator of Artizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation, Tokyo. Interested in gender, he mainly curates, researches and writes about contemporary art in Japan and Southeast Asia.

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  Yumi Goto

  Independent Curator

  (Japanese/English)

  

  Yumi Goto

  Independent Curator

  (Japanese/English)

  Yumi Goto, an independent curator based in Japan, specializes in comprehensive production, curation, photo editing, publishing, research, consulting, education, and talent development related to photography. Her main interests lie in conflict, contemporary social issues, human rights violations, and women's issues. Yumi has been involved in photography campaigns and publications for humanitarian and human rights organizations, as well as judging, nominations, curation, and production for international photography awards, photo festivals, and events. She also serves as a co-founder and curator for "Reminders Photography Stronghold" (RPS), facilitating versatile activities related to photography. Additionally, she established the “RPS KYOTO PAPEROLES" in 2020 and has been actively involved since then.

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  Mutsuko Ota

  IMA Editorial Director


  (Japanese)

  

  Mutsuko Ota

  IMA Editorial Director


  (Japanese)

  Mutsuko Ota is Editorial Director of IMA magazine. born in Tokyo, 1968. She started her career as an editor at Marie Claire and worked at several men’s magazines such as Esquire, GQ and others as feature editor on travel, gastronomy, culture, art and photography among other areas. Along with collaborating with several magazines as a freelance editor, she also became involved in various fields including art projects, book and catalogue editing, and film promotion throughout her career. She published IMA magazine in 2012. While she participates in magazines As an editorial director, photo books and exhibitions, she runs IMA gallery in Tennousu, Tokyo.

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  Sophy Thompson

  CEO and Publisher at Thames & Hudson

  (English)

  

  Sophy Thompson

  CEO and Publisher at Thames & Hudson

  (English)

  Following a 20-career in publishing in Paris, including 15 years running the illustrated books division at Flammarion, Sophy Thompson joined Thames & Hudson as Publishing Director in 2013 and took on the expanded role of CEO and Publisher in 2019. In this capacity, she oversees over 200 new publications a year along with sales and distribution of the programme through Thames & Hudson Inc. in New York, and subsidiaries in Australia, France, Singapore and Hong Kong. During her time at T&H, she has set up the T&H museum publishing division, establishing partnerships with the British Museum, the V&A, M+ in Hong Kong and Qatar Museums, and given more prominence to the T&H photography list. T&H’s recent publications in this field include monographs on William Klein, Saul Leiter, Deborah Turbeville and Chris Killip, a two-volume anthology of Daido Moriyama’ Record, and important surveys including Ravens and Red Lipstick: Japanese Photography Since 1945 and A World History of Women Photographers.

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  Nicolas Jimenez

  Director of Photography, Le Monde

  (English/French)

  

  Nicolas Jimenez

  Director of Photography, Le Monde

  (English/French)

  Nicolas Jimenez is the director of photography of the French daily newspaper Le Monde. From 1999 to 2004 he worked, for the international festival of photojournalism Visa pour l'Image. In 2005, when Le Monde decided to become a major actor of the photo industry he became national photo editor until 2008, then the head of the photo department. Le Monde is now one of the three biggest photojournalism producer in french speaking press.

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  John Einarsen

  Founding editor in chief of Kyoto Journal

  (English)

  

  John Einarsen

  Founding editor in chief of Kyoto Journal

  (English)

  John Einarsen has studied “seeing” with the founder of Miksang Contemplative Photography, Michael Wood, and his partner, Julie Dubose, for over a decade. In October 2022, he published a collection of his Miksang photographs, This Very Moment. He has given Miksang workshops in Japan and Luxembourg and spoke about contemplative photography at TEDxKyoto in March 2023.
  Einarsen’s photography books include Kyoto: The Forest Within the Gate (with Edith Shiffert and others, 2010), Small Buildings of Kyoto Vol. I & II (2016 and 2017), Zen Gardens and Temples of Kyoto (with John Dougill, 2017), Curtain Motif (2019), The Spirit of Shizen (photographs, 2022), and This Very Moment (2022).
  In 1986, along with other Kyoto-based artists and writers, he founded Kyoto Journal, a quarterly magazine providing insights from Asia. John received the Commissioner’s Award of the Japanese Cultural Affairs Agency in 2013. Originally from Colorado, John has lived in Kyoto since the early 1980s.

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  Éric Karsenty

  Editor-in-chief, Fisheye

  (English/French)

  

  © Boby

  Éric Karsenty

  Editor-in-chief, Fisheye

  (English/French)

  After graduating from the École nationale supérieure de la photographie d'Arles (1985), He began his career as a project manager with Paris Audiovisuel, the association that organizes the Mois de la Photo in Paris (1985-1989). He then joined Editing, an agency for press photographers, as editor-in-chief (1989-2007). He then worked as a photo editor in several editorial departments (2007), before training as an editorial secretary at the École des métiers de l'information in Paris (2007-2008). He worked in this capacity for various magazines and local authorities (2008-2014), before joining the Fisheye editorial team as editor-in-chief. Since January 2024, He has also been a correspondent for the photography section of the Académie des Beaux-Arts.

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  Michael Fanighetti

  Editor in chief of Aperture magazine

  (English/French)

  

  Michael Fanighetti

  Editor in chief of Aperture magazine

  (English/French)

  Editor in chief of Aperture magazine, Books division, and Digital publishing. He also curates internationally touring exhibitions for the organization, and has organized special projects with Wolfgang Tillmans, Tilda Swinton, Alec Soth, and others.
  In 2013, he organized a relaunch and reconceptualization of the magazine, which won a 2018 National Magazine Award for General Excellence. Together with guest editor Sarah Lewis, Michael is recipient of an International Center of Photography Infinity Award for Critical Writing and Research for “Vision & Justice,” the Summer 2016 issue of Aperture. He is currently also visiting critic at Columbia University, the University of Hartford’s MFA program, and a participant in the School of Visual Arts’s Mentors program. His writing has appeared in Frieze, Bookforum, and Aperture, among other publications. He is a member of the American Society of Magazine Editors, and has been a guest reviewer and speaker at many international festivals and institutions.
  

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  Anne Clergue

  Gallery owner at Anne Clergue Gallery,curator

  (English/French)

  

  Anne Clergue

  Gallery owner at Anne Clergue Gallery,curator

  (English/French)

  Anne Clergue is a gallery owner and curator based in Arles (France). Since 2014, Anne Clergue Gallery shows photography and contemporary art. She is also in charge of "Atelier Lucien Clergue" with all the photographer’s archives and directs all the projects. She gives talks about Lucien Clergue’s life.

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  Nathalie Chapuis

  Co-director of Atelier EXB

  (English/French)

  

  Nathalie Chapuis

  Co-director of Atelier EXB

  (English/French)

  Holder of a PhD in art history, Nathalie Chapuis is co-director of the French publishing house Atelier EXB, following a decade-long collaboration with founder Xavier Barral. She has published numerous books with photographic institutions from over the world, including the Centre Pompidou, Le Bal and the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, in Paris, as well as the Fotomuseum Rotterdam and MASS MoCA, Los Angeles. Recent publications include Sophie Calle's Picalso (co-published with the Picasso Museum, Paris), Marina Gadonneix's Laboratories / Observatories (co-published with the Centre Pompidou, Paris), Lukas Hoffmann's Strassenbilder and Seed Stories (co-published with the National Museum of Natural History, Paris). She has curated Petit précipité subjectif d'une histoire des graines, presented at the Centquatre art center in Paris (2022), and co-curated the traveling exhibition based on the book collection Des Oiseaux (Toulouse, Brussels, Landskrona and Breda).
  She is also the curator of the exhibition Seed stories at KYOTOGRAPHIE 2024.

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  Masakazu Murakami

  Director of Sha Shin Magazine

  (Japanese)

  

  Masakazu Murakami

  Director of Sha Shin Magazine

  (Japanese)

  Born in 1977,Tokyo. Winner of the Grand Prix of the 16th Photography ”Hitotsubo-ten”, and the 5th Visual Arts Photo Award. Published photobooks include “Kumogakure Onsen” and ”Subway Diary”. From 2008 to 2021, worked as an editor at ”Nippon Camera Magazine”, editing portfolios and photobooks. Founded the company ”Photo & Culture,Tokyo (PCT)” and established a new website in 2021 and in January 2022 launched a new magazine, "Sha Shin", as editor-in-chief.

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  Hideko Kataoka

  Photo Editor at Newsweek Japan

  (Japanese/English)

  

  Hideko Kataoka

  Photo Editor at Newsweek Japan

  (Japanese/English)

  Hideko Kataoka is a photo editor and curator.
  Hideko was appointed director of photography at Newsweek Japan in 2001. As such, she oversees and directs photography for the magazine's printed and digital editions and special issues. In 2004, she created the 'Picture Power' section, a weekly photo essay that captures underreported topics from around the world.
  Hideko has been a lecturer in photojournalism and documentary photography at Tokyo Polytechnic University since 2013 and a member of the External Review Committee at Tokyo Photographic Art Museum since 2016. She participates in portfolio reviews and has served as a juror at international photography festivals and competitions, such as World Press Photo, FotoFest, and many others. She is also the founder and director of Miiraii Creative.

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  Taka Kawachi

  Benrido, Overseas Division Director

  (Japanese/English)

  

  Taka Kawachi

  Benrido, Overseas Division Director

  (Japanese/English)

  Taka Kawachi has extensive international experience, having graduated from the Academy of Art University of San Francisco, to then working in New York City as a book editor and curator for 15 years, including Richard Prince, Nan Goldin and Patti Smith exhibition and book. Returning to Japan in 2011, he started to write essays on art and photography. In 2016, Kawachi published his first book “Art no Iriguchi (Entrance to the Arts, on American Art) followed by his second publication on European Art in the same year. In 2019 and 2020, he published his third and fourth book “The Artists 1 & 2” These publications illustrate his experiences of art, photography, design and architecture, and offers readers an opportunity to engage with the history and subjects of both regions from his unique point of view. He is currently the Director of the Overseas Division of Kyoto’s Benrido, working to disseminate the classic and rare photographic process of Collotype, and produced portfolios of Saul Leiter, Yamamoto Masao, Robert Doisneau and J. H. Lartigue.

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  Kimi Himeno

  Founder and Director of AKAAKA Art Publishing, Inc.

  (Japanese)

  

  Kimi Himeno

  Founder and Director of AKAAKA Art Publishing, Inc.

  (Japanese)

  Establishing Akaaka-sha in 2006, Kimi Himeno has overseen the publication of more than 250 books, with a primary focus on photo albums and art books. Notable publications under Akaaka-sha include award-winning works such as Rieko Shiga's CANARY (33rd Kimura Ihei Photography Award), Atsushi Okada's I am, Masashi Asada's Asada Family (34th Kimura Ihei Photography Award), Kozue Takagi's MID and GROUND (35th Kimura Ihei Photography Award), Arata Dodo's Taigan (opposite shore) (38th Kimura Ihei Photography Award), Ryuichi Ishikawa's A Grand Polyphony and Okinawan Portraits 2010-2012 (40th Kimura Ihei Photography Award), and Aya Fujioka's Here Goes River (43rd Kimura Ihei Photography Award).
  Since 2018, she has served as a professor at Osaka University of Arts.

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  Tomoka Aya

  Director of The Third Gallery Aya
  
Director of Fine-Art Photography
  Association
 Director of Osaka International Media Library

  (Japanese)

  

  Tomoka Aya

  Director of The Third Gallery Aya
  
Director of Fine-Art Photography
  Association
 Director of Osaka International Media Library

  (Japanese)

  Born in Osaka, AYA Tomoka is the owner and director of The Third Gallery Aya, established in 1996. The gallery opened at the Ishiuchi Municipal Exhibition, dealing primarily with photography and contemporary art. In addition to the exhibitions at the gallery, the artist of the gallery, OKANOUE Toshiko's photo collage exhibition “Miracle of Silence” was displayed at the Tokyo Metropolitan Garden Museum in 2019. The artist of the gallery, YAMAZAWA Eiko's exhibition “What I am doing” was displayed at the Otani Memorial Art Museum in Nishinomiya City in May and the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography in November in 2019 as 120th anniversary of her birth. In 1997, AYA produced a video titled “6 Works and 6 Artists – Being an Artist/Photographer”, a collection of interviews with six female photographers: AKIOKA Miho, ISHIUCHI Miyako, KODAMA Fusako ,NAGAHARA Yuri, MATSUO Hiroko and MATSUMOTO Michiko. In 2002, she served as supervising editor of the photography magazine “SHABA SHABA”, which published its final issue in 2005. In 2007, AYA curated a group exhibition titled “Comical&Cynical – Contemporary Photography of Korea and Japan” and toured Korea the following year.

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  Joanna Ruck

  The Guardian's deputy head of photography

  (English)

  

  Joanna Ruck

  The Guardian's deputy head of photography

  (English)

  Joanna Ruck is the Guardian's deputy head of photography. She has over 20 years experience working in news photogroapher and has worked on some of the biggest stories of recent times including politics, conflict and humanitarian crises.

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  Sawako Fukai

  Independent curator
  Editor

  (Japanese/English)

  

  Sawako Fukai

  Independent curator
  Editor

  (Japanese/English)

  Sawako Fukai is an independent creative producer and art project coordinator based in Tokyo. After working as a director of contemporary photography gallery/an art book publisher for over ten years, she became independent. After 5 years of working in Europe including London and Amsterdam since 2014, now she is based in Tokyo, working in various branding and editorial projects mainly in the field of art and design, together with international clients. She is also engaged in many independent art project such as Tokyo Photographic Research.

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  Hiroshi Kimura

  Creative Director at Creative Director at SunM Color Co

  (Japanese)

  

  Hiroshi Kimura

  Creative Director at Creative Director at SunM Color Co

  (Japanese)

  Creative Director at SunM Color Co., Ltd.
  Historically, Kimura was actively engaged in the creation of prize-winning works for the Kimura Ihei Award and bookbinding competitions.
  In recent years, while continuing his work in designing and printing photo books and art collections, he has broadened his focus to offer technical support in the production of promotional materials tied to Kyoto-based events like Art Collaboration Kyoto (ACK) and AMBIENT KYOTO. Kimura also spearheads several in-house projects, using company printers to drive contemporary art endeavours. Collaborating with a diverse range of young talents, including photographers, painters, pixel artists, and graphic designers, he also collaborates with galleries and art organizations to plan and execute the sale of photo books, art collections, and pieces on the company's e-commerce platform.

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  Reiko Tsubaki

  Curator at Mori Art Museum

  (Japanese/English/French)

  

  Reiko Tsubaki

  Curator at Mori Art Museum

  (Japanese/English/French)

  Tsubaki joined the Mori Art Museum in 2002. At Mori Art Museum, She curated “Medicine and Art,”(2010) “Universe and Art,”(2016)(2017 toured to the ArtScience Museum in Singapore) “Leandro Elrich,”(2017) “Roppongi Crossing 2019,” “STARS,”(2020-2021) and “Our Ecology,”(2023-2024). For small projects, she introduced Ho Tzu Nyen, Tala Madani, Camille Henrot, Takata Fuyuhiko, Cyprien Gaillard, Cao Fei and Yamauchi Shota. She also curated “MAM Research 006: Chronicle Kyoto 1990s”. She is currently preparing “Louise Bourgeois,” which will be held in September. Outside the museum, she curated “The Cosmos as Metaphor,” (Kyoto, 2012), “Duality of Existence: Post Fukushima” (NY, 2014) and “Body, Love, Gender” (Seoul, 2023). Visiting professor at Seian University of Art and Design (2013-2014) and a part-time lecturer at Aoyama Gakuin University (2019-2023). She also writes, lectures and judges.

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  Yseult Chehata

  Responsible of exhibitions and development at Atelier EXB

  (English/French)

  

  Yseult Chehata

  Responsible of exhibitions and development at Atelier EXB

  (English/French)

  Art historian Yseult Chehata studied at the École du Louvre in France, where she specialized in contemporary art and photography, followed by a master's degree in museology. Between 2007 and 2012, she worked at the Aperture Foundation in New York where she was in charge of educational activities and partnerships. On her return to Paris, she joined the publishing house Atelier EXB / Éditions Xavier Barral, and is now responsible of the traveling exhibitions including Seed stories and the collective exhibition Des oiseaux as well as development and communication aspects.

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  Marie Sumalla

  photo editor, Le Monde

  (English/French)

  

  Marie Sumalla

  photo editor, Le Monde

  (English/French)

  Marie Sumalla, born in 1980 in Perpignan, has been photo editor at Le Monde since 2011.

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  RongRong+inri

  Photographers
  Founders of Three Shadows Photography Art Centre
  Jimei x Arles International Photography Festival Founder

  (Japanese/Chinese)

  

  RongRong+inri

  Photographers
  Founders of Three Shadows Photography Art Centre
  Jimei x Arles International Photography Festival Founder

  (Japanese/Chinese)

  Chinese photographic art pioneer RongRong (born in 1968) and Japanese photographer inri (born in 1973) teamed up in Beijing in 2000 as “RongRong&inri,” and have since played a leading role in photographic expression in China. In 2007, the pair established China's first contemporary photography center, “Three Shadows Photography Art Centre,” in Caochangdi in Beijing. With the aim of becoming a platform for the discovery, dissemination, and development of contemporary photographic art in China, the center holds a variety of exhibitions and programs throughout the year.
  RongRong&inri say that since the creation of “Tsumari Monogatari” (Tsumari Story) in 2012–2014, which was influenced by the overwhelming water cycle in the primeval nature of Niigata, the existence of “life-giving water” has flowed at the foundation of their work.
  In 2015 they moved to Kyoto. Their new work was born from the idea that the water cycle has strongly influenced the basic cultural landscape of Kyoto, which has produced in Japan’s millennial capital multi-layered scenery that combines history, culture, and topography.

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  Osamu Ouchi

  Art Director, Graphic Designer / nano nano graphics

  (Japanese)

  

  Osamu Ouchi

  Art Director, Graphic Designer / nano nano graphics

  (Japanese)

  Born in 1971, Ouchi graduated from the Department of Graphic Design at Tama Art University’s Faculty of Art and Design. Apprenticed under the late Ikko Tanaka, he established nano nano graphics Ltd. on July 7, 2003. Setting the synergy between the two-dimensional world and space as the axis of his creation, he employs a consistent direction from graphic to spatial design, and expands his activities across a wide range of fields. He has worked on exhibition design both in Japan and abroad. In August 2021, he served as the art director and scenographer for the first art festival in Chiba City, " Chiba City Festival of Arts CHIBAFOTO." In January 2022, he founded the "MATSUMOTO Architecture + Art Festival" in Matsumoto City, Nagano Prefecture, and serves as the general director.

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  John and Masumi Homma O’Donnell

  Co-founders of Atelier VGI

  (Japanese/English)

  

  John and Masumi Homma O’Donnell

  Co-founders of Atelier VGI

  (Japanese/English)

  John and Masumi Homma O’Donnell are the co-founders of Atelier VGI, a fine art photo book publisher located in midtown Manhattan, New York. John has more than 40 years experience in producing, creating and distributing media and fine art, as well as advising private investors in the related capital markets. Masumi served for over 25 years in various executive roles in marketing and business affairs as a publisher for a number of video labels and graphic novel imprints, selling millions of units during her career.
  
  At Atelier VGI, John is responsible for discovering outstanding photographers on a global basis, and working with them to produce museum quality, limited edition photo books. Masumi is responsible for the business affairs of the company, including acquisition negotiations, production budgets and all financial affairs. Together with John, she is the final decision-maker at Atelier VGI for all acquisitions.

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  Takahiro Ito

  Curator of Photography, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum

  (Japanese)

  

  Takahiro Ito

  Curator of Photography, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum

  (Japanese)

  Born in Tokyo in 1986. Joined TOP in 2013. Major exhibitions he has been curated include “Revolution 9: Homma Takashi”, “MATSUE TAIJI: makietaCC”, “Photography in the Ryukyu Islands”, “Photography and Fashion Since the 1990s”, “Things So Faint But Real: Contemporary Japanese Photography vol. 15”, “Nagashima Yurie: And a Pinch of Irony with a Hint of Love” and “In the Here and Now - TOP Collection: Scrolling Through Heisei Part 1”. Part-time lecturer at Joshibi University of Art and Design.