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クロチルド・モレット Clothilde Morette
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. -
チアゴ・ノゲイラ Thyago Nogueira
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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高橋朗 Sayaka Takahashi
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. -
ルシール・レイボーズ Lucille Reyboz
French Photographer. Born in 1973, Lucille Reyboz began her journey with photography in Africa, where she spent most of her childhood. She discovered Japan in 1999, collaborating with Salif Keita to the Ryuichi Sakamoto’s opera, “Life”. As a portrait photographer, Lucille Reyboz produced numerous record covers for labels such as Blue Note and Verve working with many renowned artists over her 20 years in the industry. While developing a prolific photography practice, she exhibited her work widely, most notably in Visa pour l’image (2001), Phillips de Pury in New York (2007), and CHANEL NEXUS HALL, Tokyo (2011). She published several books, including Batammaba by Gallimard, Source, Belles de Bamako and Impressions du Japon with Keiichiro Hirano by Editions de la Martinière. Lucille Reyboz now lives and works in Kyoto, where she co-founded with Yusuke Nakanishi KYOTOGRAPHIE in 2013 and KYOTOPHONIE, Borderless Music Festival in 2023.
仲西祐介 Yusuke Nakanishi
Lighting Director. Yusuke Nakanishi was born in 1968 and is a lighting artist who travels the world, and expresses his impressions of light and shadow from his memories. He has worked as a lighting director for music videos, feature films, stages, music concerts, fashion shows and interior designs. He also created lighting object series “Eatable Lights” and “Tamashii” and has exhibited installations at the Hara Museum, School Gallery (Paris), and including “Nuit Blanche” in Kyoto. In Autumn 2022, he was involved in the creative direction for Van Cleef & Arpels exhibition “LIGHT OF FLOWERS,” which was held in the grounds of Shimogamo Shrine and the Tadasu-no-mori Forest. Yusuke Nakanishi now lives and works in Kyoto, where he co-founded with Lucille Reyboz KYOTOGRAPHIE in 2013 and KYOTOPHONIE, Borderless Music Festival in 2023.