Photo Basel, Switzerland’s first international art fair solely dedicated to photography is pleased to announce Béatrice Andrieux as the fair’s Artistic Director. In her new role, she will work closely with the two Directors in its international growing. Béatrice Andrieux chaired the 4th edition of the Swiss Festival Alt+1000 as Director in 2015. From 2011 until 2014 she worked for Paris Photo and also implemented Paris Photo Los Angeles at the Paramount Studios. She collaborated at the gallery Zabriskie in Paris and New York and at the Galerie du Jour agnes b. where she organized several monographic exhibitions among Lee Friedlander, Nicholas Nixon and Georges-Tony Stoll. Editor in Connaissances des Arts Photo from 2006 till 2011, she is a co-author of the work “Contacts Le Corbusier / Lucien Hervé, Editions du Seuil in 2011“. She is a holder of a post-graduate Diploma in Aesthetics’ (Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne) and is specialized in photography and in contemporary art. Born in 1968, she lives in Colombes (France).