For this third edition of the Musée du Quai Branly's Biennial
Photoquai, artistic direction was provided by photographer and film
director Françoise Huguier. The original approach of 46 photographers selected from countries outside of Europe and North America will be fe...

13.09.2011[ read full story ]

Born in Bogotá in 1963, Julián Lineros began working as a photographer at the age of twenty-eight. As a photojournalist, he contributed to both Colombian magazines and the international press. With accreditation from the Gamma-Eyedea agency, he covered the release of Ingrid...

13.09.2011[ read full story ]

Luis Carlos Tovar was born in 1979 in Bogotá, where he studied visual arts at the University of the Andes, majoring in the history and theory of architecture. His research gradually led him to the exploration of historical memory via site-specific installations. He has e...

13.09.2011[ read full story ]

Chan-Hyo Bae was born in Busan, South Korea, in 1975. After graduating in photography from Kyung-Sung University in Busan in 2003, he left for England, where he obtained a further degree from the Slade School of Fine Art in London. Since moving to Toronto to work he has sh...

13.09.2011[ read full story ]

Born in Havana in 1984, Adrián Fernández Milanés studied at the San Alejandro Academy in Cuba, then at the Visual Arts Faculty, where he graduated in 2010. He has exhibited in Havana, notably at the Ludwig Foundation of Cuba, and taken part in group shows in Cuba, H...

13.09.2011[ read full story ]

Born in Havana, Cuba in 1974, Alejandro González learnt photography in workshops directed by photographers like Diego Goldberg, Luis González Palma and Edgar Moreno. He later won a residency at the Cologne Academy of Media Arts in Germany. In 2009 he was awarded the Cuban ...

13.09.2011[ read full story ]

Born in Havana in 1986, Alfredo Sarabia is the son of Cuban photographer Alfredo Sarabia (1951–1992). A graduate of the Academia San Alejandro in Cuba and the Higher Institute of Art in Havana, he took part in a number of group exhibitions at the Ludwig de Cuba Foundation.

13.09.2011[ read full story ]

Born in Ethiopia in 1975, Michael Tsegaye lives and works in Addis Ababa. He graduated in Fine Arts and Design from the University of Addis in 2002, he soon had to lay down his brushes because of an allergy to oil paint. He then discovered a passion for photography, which became his favouri...

13.09.2011[ read full story ]

Shailabh Rawat was born in 1958 in the state of Uttarakhand, in India. He lives and works in New Delhi. Since their launch in 1988, he has been responsible for Photo Fictions in the monthly Madhur Kathayen [Beautiful Stories], the first popular magazine in India to pu...

13.09.2011[ read full story ]

Born in 1977, Mahesh Shantaram lived abroad for many years. After studying at the Spéos School of Photography in Paris, he returned to his home city of Bangalore, in the state of Karnataka, and in 2006 decided to specialise in the flourishing field of wedding photography. As...

13.09.2011[ read full story ]

Born in 1960 in Haryana state, in Northern India, Mohan Verma lives and works in New Delhi. He took up photography when he was twelve and had made it his profession by the time he was twenty. After beginnings in advertising he turned towards the portrait, working in a glamorous s...

13.09.2011[ read full story ]

Jim Allen Abel was born in 1975 in Ujung Pandang, formerly Makassar, on Sulawesi Island. In 2002 he and a group of fellow students from the Indonesian Institute of Arts in Yogyakarta founded the Mes 56 collective, named after the former air force barracks they had moved in...

13.09.2011[ read full story ]

Photographer and filmmaker Jamal Penjweny lives and works in Salaymanya, in Iranian Kurdistan, where he was born in 1981. Since 2004 his photos of the Iraqi conflict have been widely published and the series Iraq is Flying has been exhibited all over the world. He graduated fro...

13.09.2011[ read full story ]