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_ EUGENIA MESTRES

Following a Masters in History of Art from the University of Barcelona in 1998, she remained two years in the photographic archives at the department of architectural heritage at the General Council of Barcelona as an archivist. In 2000, Eugénia Mestres settled in France and joined the association Renaissance des Cités d'Europe in Bordeaux.

She was in charge of various European projects to raise awareness on heritage sponsored by this structure, as well as on international seminars, and the Heritage evening organised by the town and the publications arising from this.

Two years later, she accepted to undertake for the Centre des Arts d'Enghien-les-Bains the commissionership, as well for the editorial monitoring of the monographic exhibition catalogues for the photographers Carlos Saura, Jean-Michel Fauquet, Dolores Marat, and Bernard Guillot.

_ DOMINIQUE MARCHÈS

Dominique Marchès lives and works in Paris and in region.
Photographer since 1966.

Dominique Marchès was director of contemporary art for gallery in Châteauroux from 1972 till 1982, and in Paris in 1974 and 1975.

He is the founder and a director of the regional center of contemporary art of Châteauroux from 1978 till 1987.

But also director of the contemporary art gallery in Tours, from 1984 till 1987, then of the center of contemporary art of Vassivière in Limousin from 1988 till 2001, and finally artistic director of the Departmental Domain of Chamarande from 2001 till 2005.

In 2006, he was a co-police captain(a co-commissioner) of the exhibition(exposure) " The Strength of the Art " to the Big Palace in Paris, and police captain(commissioner) of the biennial event of contemporary art of Gonesse, assisted by Claire Bresson.

_ CLAIRE BRESSON

Claire Bresson lives and works in Paris. She is for the initiative of the project PHOTOEUROPA. Follows by more than twenty years the photographers and their work.

After a formation Fine art in Photography, she answers during ten year the video commands photo and graphics of various Parisian design studios. During a programme of three years on the contemporary art in the Louvre and in the EAC, she drafts a report on The art piece on digital support in public sale which is worth to her the award of officer's 2004.

After one year of experience in galleries (Chez Valentin, 14/16 Verneuil), Claire Bresson will assume the artistic and logistic direction of the exhibitions Constellation and on Jeudi Aujourd'hui for the structure CLBR. Small platform in favour of the contemporary art in Ile-de-France, this last one will assist Dominique Marchès's commissionership for the biennial event of Gonesse.
It is in 2007 when she proposes him(her) the adventure PHOTEUROPA, to produce and encourage the monstration of photographic works within the European Union.

_ PATRICK LE BESCONT

Half way between artistic experimentation and publishing, for a long time Filigranes publishers have been one of the only publishing houses specialising in photos, offering proof of the original and daring approach reflected in the unusual path taken by Patrick Le Bescont, who is today the artistic director of these publications.

Created in 1988, by Patrick Le Bescont himself, Filigranes boasts over 250 published works, bringing together more than 150 photographers and the same number of authors. In 2003, Filigranes was awarded the Nadar prize for the work by Bernard Guillot, Le Pavillon Blanc. Patrick Le Bescont was a self-taught photographer before founding Filigranes.

A measure he adopted as a result of his wish to publish his own pictures. Filigranes does not lay claim to any precise editorial line, but is rather based on instinctive choices, thus offering a wide diversity of authors, themes, styles and aesthetic approaches.

In order to support contemporary creativity, when choosing artists, photographers and authors particular priority is given to young people. The originality of the editorial approach taken by Filigranes lies in the fact that its books are conceived as really unique artistic projects, rather than as a simple reproduction of pictures.

_ SOPHIE BROSSAIS

Sophie Brossais is awarded of the Fine Arts of Rennes and of the Fine arts of Brussels.

In 2002, she created a collection, a project bron from the observation of the work of the contemporary artists and from their processes of creation. By being the witness of mechanisms of artistic productions, it weaves links between the artists and makes visible with them what is formed in the intimacy of the work of creation.

To allow the distribution of this activity, she proposes actions of mediation between the public and the production of the artists in the places which they invest : workshops, galleries, institutions, urban environment, public and private enterprises.

In 2007, she creates the Supervision association and proposes an access to the contemporary creation. By being the witness of the production of the artists, it so tempts the exploration of the process of creation.

Her interventions allow a reading of the artistic creation by discovering the big stages of the modern art history and the contemporary. The public so attends performances, participates in the conferences and looks from the point of view of the amateur, in artists' studios(workshops), at galleries, at museums and at the public space.

_ NATHALIE BELAYCHE

Nathalie Belayche is a photographer and commissioner of independent exhibitions in Brussels since 2006, and in Paris since 1988. In the beginning she collaborated with the Parisian galleries of Daniel Templon, Gordon Pym & fils and especially Samia Saouma where she developed her interest in conceptual photography.

Then at the Laboratoire Picto, and after for the Tangophoto group, while in charge of public relations, she built up her privileged contacts with the whole professional scene; photographers, agencies, art buyers, commissioners and gallery owners, institutions, as well as those staging French and foreign festivals.

This led her to discover the work coming out of Paris, Berlin, Milan, Berne, Buenos Aires and New York. However, it was at the Galerie Gordon Pym et fils that she met with the American photographer Nat Finkelstein, whose agent she would become several years later.
Two exhibitions have been organised by this same gallery: "Stick to the sixties" in November 2004, featuring photographs taken at the Factory from 1964 to 1967, and a series commissioned by Life Magazine but never published, on the first demonstration against the Vietnam War in Washington in 1965.

As well as "Tale of one City" in October 2005, a work on the New York underground scene of the 1960s.

She went on to present, still at Gordon Pym et fils, an exhibition by Esther Levine, a young photographer living in New York, on the "Urban Photo Project" focussing mainly on the town where she lived at the time, but also on the towns today of Warsaw, Beirut, Canton and Berlin, work that has been recently published.

Since August 2006, she has been exploring the scene in Belgium and Luxembourg and representing the work of Esther Levine (Berlin -Nyc), Frank Rothe (Berlin), Marni Horwitz (Brooklyn)...