Emmanuelle De L’Ecotais
Curator of Photography, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
Emmanuelle de l’Ecotais is curator for photography at the Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris since 2001. She has a PhD in History of Art, and is the specialist of Man Ray’s work. She has organized a large number of exhibitions, including Man Ray, la photographie à l’envers (Centre Pompidou/Grand Palais 1998), Alexandre Rodtchenko, La Photographie dans l’œil (Musée d’art moderne, 2007), Objectivités, La Photographie à Düsseldorf (ARC, 2008), Henri Cartier-Bresson, L’Imaginaire d’après nature (Musée d’Art moderne, 2009), Bernhard et Anna Blume, Polaroïd (Maison européenne de la photographie, 2010), Linder, Femme-Objet(Musée d’Art moderne/ARC, 2013), Jean-Philippe Charbonnier, l’œil de Paris (CMP, Paris, 2014). She is the author of number of essays and books, among them L’Esprit Dada (Editions Assouline, 1999), Man Ray (Taschen, 2000), Man Ray – Rayographies (Editions Léo Scheer, 2002), and is regularly member of different acquisitions committees (Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, 2004-2007, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, 2007-2010). Also part of the jury for Paris Jeunes Talents in visual arts, Prix pour la photographie of the Royal Monceau Hotel, Prix pour la photographie of the Fondation des Treilles, Prix de photographie Marc Ladreit de Lacharrière of the Académie des Beaux-Arts. She has also been the artistic adviser for the Prix HSHC pour la Photographie in 2013.
Space Jury
The jury for the Prix Pictet are a group of leading experts in the visual arts from around the world including directors of major museums and galleries as well as journalists and critics. They lead the global search for images of high artistic qcuality and narrative power and fit the theme of a particular cycle.
Sir David King (Chairman)
UK Foreign Secretary’s Special Representative for Climate Change (SRCC)
Martin Barnes
Senior Curator of Photographs, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Valérie Belin
Photographer and Laureate of Prix Pictet Disorder
Philippe Bertherat
Former Managing Partner, Pictet Group
Jan Dalley
Arts Editor, Financial Times
Emmanuelle de l’Écotais
Curator of Photography, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
Dambisa Moyo
Economist and Author
Sebastião Salgado
Photographer
Wang Shu
Architect