Proximity and Presence

Lauréate du prix W. Eugene Smith en 1987 puis du prix Hasselblad en 2008, la plus haute distinction photographique, Graciela Iturbide est une figure majeure de la photographie latino-américaine.

La Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain soutient la cause Yanomami et le travail de Claudia Andujar depuis 20 ans.

Kristen Gresh is the Estrellita and Yousuf Karsh Senior Curator of Photographs at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA). At the MFA, her exhibitions have included Robert Frank: Mary's Book (2025), LIFE Magazine and the Power of Photography (2022), Graciela Iturbide’s Mexico (2019) and She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World (2013), of which she was the author of the exhibitions’ companion publications. Other publications include Reframing Photography: Multiple Histories of Photography (2024) and Viewpoints: Photographs from the Howard Greenberg Collection (2019), as well as contributions to Manuel Alvarez Bravo: Collaborations (2025), Ruth Orkin: A Photo Spirit (2021), The New Woman Behind the Camera (2020) and Une histoire mondiale des femmes photographes (2020). Previously, Gresh worked as curator and taught history of photography in Cairo and Paris, where she also wrote her PhD dissertation on The Family of Man at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales.

Thyago Nogueira is the head of the Contemporary Art Department at Instituto Moreira Salles (IMS), Brazil, and founding editor of ZUM magazine, published by IMS. He has curated numerous exhibitions such as Zanele Muholi: Courageous Beauty (2025), Claudia Andujar: The Yanomami Struggle (2018-2024), Daido Moriyama: A retrospective (2022-2025), Miguel Rio Branco: Dreamt Words... (2022), William Eggleston's The American Color (2015). He has also chaired the Hasselblad Award and contributed to numerous publications and prizes worldwide, including 2 new books on Claudia Andujar: Photo Poche (Actes Sud) and A Sônia (Textuel).