Our Team

Jean-Jacques Naudet / Publishing Director
Jean-Jacques Naudet was editor-in-chief of the French magazine Photo for 18 years, then moved to New York as photo correspondent for Paris Match, Elle and Premiere, and editor-at-large of American Photo for another 18 years. After co-founding Le Journal de la Photographie in 2010, he created L’Œil de la Photographie in October 2013.

Gilles Decamps / Editor-in-Chief
Gilles Decamps was one of the star photographers of Paris Match before moving to the United States. He now lives in New York, where he continues to develop his research into composition and framing in his personal images. He was one of the first contributors to L’Oeil de la Photographie.

Arthur Dayras / Business development and partnerships manager
Born in 1993, Arthur Dayras is Chief of Staff to the Director of the Musée National d’Art Moderne and Head of Partnerships for the daily L’Œil de la Photographie. He previously worked as publishing manager at the Musée d’art moderne et contemporain de Saint-Étienne Métropole and as curator-assistant at the Dia Art Foundation. He is the author of his first novel, Que brûle la nuit, published by Editions Robert Laffont in 2024.

Laurent Nicolas (Hypsoma SAS) / CTO and Digital Strategy
An engineering graduate of ENSCP ParisTech, Laurent began his career as a project manager in a major pharmaceutical group. Passionate about IT and design, he decided to create his own company, “Hypsoma”, specialized in IT development and digital communication in 2010. Today, Hypsoma supports startups and SMEs in their IT and digital communication projects. He joined the L’Oeil de la Photographie team in January 2018.

Lucile Béranger / Portfolios du Weekend Manager
A professional illustrator and amateur photographer, I live between the South-West, where I regularly exhibit my work, and Provence, where I’m originally from. I joined L’Œil de la photographie in 2015.

Sylvie Rebbot / Editorial Secretary (English)
She worked for the Sygma agencies in NY, Woodfin Camp, then very quickly the director of the Magnum archives in Paris, then in New York, returning to France to become photo director for Geo France. Sylvie has collaborated on numerous books, photo juries and exhibitions. She works in Paris as a freelance journalist, specializing in culture and society for the magazine and web press.

Olivier Ligny (Helix)/ System Administrator
Self-taught, Olivier began freelancing in IT in 2007 as a developer, then as a system administrator. Today, he manages dozens of web and email hosting servers for his customers.

Regular contributors

Jean-Jacques Ader / Reporter & columnist
“Trained as a photographer, Jean-Jacques Ader is a graduate of the Beaux-Arts in Toulouse and the ENSP in Arles.
After eight years of photojournalism in the weekly press, he became a freelance photographer and art director in 2003,
developing exhibition and photobook projects.
He has been writing regularly on images and various cultural subjects since 2019.”

Marine Aubenas / Columnist
After graduating from CELSA, Marine Aubenas worked as a project manager in advertising and production agencies. She then co-founded Studio Indice, a studio specializing in graphic design and branding. Since January 2024, she has been a columnist for L’Oeil de la photographie, where she covers photographic news.

Noémie de Bellaigue / Columnist – Germany
Noémie de Bellaigue is a journalist and photographer based in Berlin since 2023. After several experiences with French and Lebanese editorial offices such as Architectural Digest and L’Orient-Le Jour, she has been working as a freelancer since 2019. Her work focuses on societal and cultural issues.

John Devos / Columnist – Belgium & Netherlands
John Devos is a historian and an art historian fascinated by lens-based arts.
He taught a vast array of courses such as art history, history of the moving image, photographic history, communication, research & media ethics at Narafi – LUCA School of Arts Brussels with passion and conviction. Has wielded a photo camera for 50 years, but does not consider himself a photographer. His own interest is mainly in the history & development of photographic practice in all its manifestations between 1800 and yesterday.
As a ‘fresh’ old age pensioner he is absolutely convinced that a wild garden is the most ecological approach, so he now enjoys his activity as an independent lecturer , critic & curator specialized in photography.

Nadine Dinter / Columnist – Germany
Author of the monthly interview series “What’s New” Nadine Dinter, one of Germany’s leading PR specialists for photography, is not only our direct link to the world of photography in Germany, but also the author of the monthly column “What’s New?”, With interviews with established and emerging photographers from around the world. Since September 2019, she has chatted with international stars such as Rankin and Roger Ballen, chosen her favorites from Berlin’s photography scene, spoken to Chloé Jafé about her Yakuza series and traveled back in time with Mary Russell, a close friend of Yves Saint Laurent and Gunter Sachs.

Jean-Baptiste Gauvin / Columnist
Author of the novel La mer terrible, published by Editions Henry Dougier, Jean-Baptiste Gauvin writes articles on current photographic and pictorial events for L’Œil de la Photographie, LIKE, Process and Zone Critique, and is a member of the art magazine Pointculture. He lives and works in Paris.

Jean-Paul Gavard-Perret / Columnist
Jean-Paul Gavard-Perret is a writer, contemporary art critic and Beckett specialist. He is a former university professor. He has published a large number of books, including poetry, short texts and essays on contemporary art and literature.

Zoé Isle de Beauchaine / Columnist
Art historian and journalist Zoé Isle de Beauchaine is a regular contributor to The Art Newspaper France and L’Œil de la Photographie. Internationally, she contributes to Photomonitor and Photograph. She also works as a freelance and institutional curator, most recently for the Institut pour la Photographie and the PhotoSaintGermain festival.

Patricia Lanza / Editor – United States
Patricia Lanza has had a varied career in the art world. She is curator, consultant and editor for L’Œil de la photographie (Close UP) and focuses on the visual arts, in particular on development and consultation for photography, including the production of touring exhibitions. She was director of talent and content for the Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles from 2009 to 2017, where she produced twenty-one exhibitions.

Thierry Maindrault / Columnist
A creative photographer and curator of international exhibitions of contemporary creations, he is also a scenographer. He works in all areas of creativity. Thierry writes a monthly column for L’Œil de la Photographie readers.

Jacques Revon / Columnist
Jacques Revon, originally from Burgundy, became a photographer’s apprentice with his portraitist father in Roanne. He went on to work in a wide variety of fields in photography, and became a journalist and major reporter at France 3, where he enjoyed a long career. Today, he is still passionate about photography and film. He likes to pass on his knowledge and professional experience to new generations, while continuing his research.

Paola Sammartano / Columnist – Italie
Paola Sammartano is a journalist specialising in photography and its history. Based in Italy, she regularly contributes to L’Œil de la Photographie. She also curates the Photo Valley page of the Travel Emilia Romagna Region portal. She has dealt with image, photography and iconographic communication for leading Italian specialized magazines and has held editorial and photo editing roles for photography, science and tourism magazines.

Carole Schmitz / Columnist
A freelance journalist for several years now, she has contributed to numerous French and foreign magazines, including Paris-Match, Gala, VSD, Elle Déco, Vogue Brésil, AD Russie and El Mondo, to name but a few. Curious about everything, she’s passionate about new human adventures. That’s why, over the years, she has enthusiastically accepted a number of challenges, such as taking on the position of “people” editor-in-chief at the Gamma agency, as well as various positions (reporter, director, editor-in-chief) on television programs.
Passionate about images and image-makers, she came up with the idea of revisiting Proust’s famous Questionnaire from a more photographic angle for L’Oeil de la Photographie.

Sean Sheehan / Columnist – Ireland & United Kingdom
Sean Sheehan is based in Ireland and London. He is the author of Žižek: A guide for the Perplexed (2012) and is currently writing another book on Žižek to be published next year. A travel journalist when not writing about photography, Mr. Sheehan also runs a small family farm in Ireland, photographed in Jack’s World: Farming on the Sheep’s Head Peninsula, 1920-2003.

Tintin Törncrantz / Columnist – Sweden
I’m someone else. I grew up in the far reaches of the beyond, in a Twin Peaks without the glamour, cherry pies and fascinating oddities. Today, I live in one of the most oppressive and violent capitals in the Western world, Stockholm, where talent and erudition are met with nothing but contempt and total ignorance (hello Fotografiska et al.). As a writer and critic since the early 1990s, I have an existential desire to present my precious readers with the most beautiful and meticulously composed works in the world. And you should know how much I love the ardent humanity of Kate Tempest’s song “People’s Faces”, in which she humbly asks, “Couldn’t we do things differently?”.

Occasional contributors: Elizabeth Avedon, Christian Caujolle, Luc Debraine, Jean Loh, Carole Nagar, Andy Romanoff, Alison Stieven Taylor, Anna Winand.