Dr. Thierry Gervais
Dr. Thierry Gervais is Professor, Director of the Film and Photography Preservation and Collections Management MA program, and Head of Research of The Image Centre (IMC), Âé¶¹ÊÓÆµ. He was the editor in chief of Études photographiques from 2007 to 2013 and is the author of numerous articles on photojournalism in peer-reviewed journals and scholarly publications. He was the curator of the exhibition Dispatch: War Photographs in Print, 1854–2008 (IMC, Fall 2014) and the co-curator of the exhibitions Views from Above (Centre Pompidou-Metz, Spring 2013), Léon Gimpel (1873–1948), The Audacious Work of a Photographer (Musée d’Orsay, Paris, Spring 2008), and L’événement: Les images comme acteurs de l’histoire (Jeu de Paume, Paris, Winter 2007). At the IMC, he organized the symposia “The ‘Public Life’ of Photographsâ€� (2013), “Collecting and Curating Photographs: Between Private and Public Collectionsâ€� (2014), “Photography Historians: A New Generation?â€� (2015), “Photography: the Black Box of Historyâ€� (2018). The latest he organized took place in the Spring 2025 at the IMC and was titled “Encoding the Image: How does AI affect the Future of Photo History (IMC). He edited The “Publicâ€� Life of Photographs (2016), the first volume of the academic “IMC Booksâ€� series published in partnership with MIT Press. His book (with Gaëlle Morel) The Making of Visual News. A History of Photography in the Press was released by Bloomsbury in October 2017. With Vincent Lavoie, he co-edited the last volume of IMC Books Facing Black Star (2023). His current research focuses on retouched press photographs and the use of AI in photo histories.