Christian Caujolle
A student and associate of Michel Foucault, Roland Barthes and Pierre Bourdieu, Christian Caujolle (born 1953) is an associate professor at the École Nationale Supérieure Louis Lumière. Chief pictures editor with the newspaper Libération from 1981 to 1986, founder of the photo agency VU, which he directed between 1986 and 2006, and director of the Galerie VU since 1998, he has curated numerous exhibitions at the international level. He has published monograph studies of Jacques Henri Lartigue, William Klein and Raymond Depardon, among others, has contributed to various catalogues (Michael Ackerman, Chema Madoz, etc), and is director of the Voir et Dire and Fondation CCF collections for the Actes Sud de Paris imprint. Artistic director of the Rencontres internationales de la photographie d’Arles in 1997, he has been guest curator at the Photo Biënnale in Rotterdam (2000), the PhotoEspaña Festival (2001) and the Lithuanian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (2003).
