Présentation et mode de fonctionnement
Photoquai steering committee
Anahita Ghabaian Etehadieh, Director of the Silk Road Gallery (Tehran), is artistic director of Photoquai 2009.
A selection committee was set up for the main event, for the exhibitions of the musée du quai Branly and of the artistic partners of Photoquai 2009. This committee consists of:
- Christine Barthe, Scientific Manager of the Heritage Unit of the photographic collections – musée du quai Branly (Latin America)
- Reza, photographer (China)
- Hélène Fulgence, Cultural Development Director – musée du quai Branly (India)
- Anahita Ghabaian Etehadieh, gallerist and independent curator (Near- and Middle-East)
- Nathalie Gonthier, Independent curator – Director of the FRAC La Réunion (Sub-Saharan Africa)
- Yves Le Fur, Director of the Heritage and Collections Department – musée du quai Branly (Australia)
- Céline Martin-Raget, Manager of the Image Centre – musée du quai Branly (North America, Canada and Hawaii)
- Mouna Mekouar, Independent curator (Maghreb)
- Tadashi Ono, Independent curator (Japan, Korea, South-East Asia)
Orientation and selection
The artistic director coordinates a selection committee which consists of image specialists, and to which around twenty foreign curators were added.
The selection of Photoquai was based on « tandems » of curators, whose final selections cover around thirty countries divided into geographical areas:
Near- and Middle-East; Sub-Saharan Africa and the Maghreb; Japan, Korea, South-East Asia (Philippines, Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia); Oceania, Australia and New Zealand; North America, Canada and Hawaii; South America: Peru-Brazil and Argentina-Mexico; India; China-Caucuses.
For each of these zones, the associate curators were in charge of, in the areas concerned, discovering and passing on to the selection committee rising photographic talents who were unknown or little known in Europe.
| Geographical zone | Curator | Foreign co-curator | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Near- and Middle-East | Anahita Ghabaian Etehadieh | Mehran Mohajer (Iran), photographer. | ||
| Sub-Saharan Africa and the Maghreb | Nathalie Gonthier in collaboration with the association Afrique In Visu for Sub-Saharan Africa Mouna Mekouar for the Maghreb countries, Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria. |
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| Japan, Korea, South-East Asia (Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia) | Tadashi Ono | Alexander Supartono (Indonesia). | ||
| Oceania, Australia and New-Zealand | Yves Le Fur | Maud Page (Australia), Artistic Director of the Brisbane Triennial, for Australia, and Anne Noble (New-Zealand), photographer and photography professor at the University of Wellington, for New-Zealand | ||
| North America, Canada and Hawaï | Céline Martin-Raget | Martha Langford (Canada), independant curator and associate professor at the History of Art Department, University Concordia, Montreal. | ||
| Latin America : Argentina -Mexico | Christine Barthe | Valeria Gonzalez (Argentina) for Argentina, and Alejandro Castellanos (Mexico), Director of the Centro de la Imagen de Mexico, for Mexico. | ||
| Peru -Brazil | Alejandro Castellote (Spanish), independant curator and founder of PhotoEspaña Madrid, curator for Brazil and Peru, in association with | Iatã Cannabrava for Brazil | ||
| India | Hélène Fulgence | Pablo Bartholomew (India), photographer. | ||
| China -Caucuses | Reza | Na Risong (China) for China and Sarah Oghuz (Azerbaidjan) for the Caucuses. |