During our national symposium “Photography & Sciences” #2022 at the Muséum de Toulouse, Michel Poivert, professor of art history at the University of Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne, and godfather of the Residence 1+2 #2022, symbolically passed the baton to Emilia Genuardi, co-founder and director of a ppr oc he Paris, new godmother of the 1+2 Residency #2023.

Emilia Genuardi is a contemporary photography specialist and curator, founding director of the a ppr oc he and unRepresented by a pp roc he fairs.

After studying art history and architecture at the University of Manchester, she moved to Paris and worked as a photographer’s agent. For 10 years, Emilia has been travelling the world, producing various series of images, books and exhibitions. In 2012, she undertook the artistic direction of the Galerie Madé, in Paris, bringing together established artists and avant-garde creations.

In 2017, driven by the desire to create a fair with a unique format, she founded the a ppr oc he fair, dedicated to artists who experiment with the photographic medium.

Cultivating her support for contemporary creation, Emilia Genuardi imagines in 2023 unRepresented by a ppr oc he, the first fair dedicated to artists not represented in galleries and supported by a community of collectors. These two independent annual meetings are produced by the company a ccr oc he, which she founded in 2018. In parallel, Emilia regularly takes part in juries and portfolio readings, taught a course on Photography from 2018 to 2022 and its market at the Paris College of Arts, and collaborates regularly with the Eyes in Progress training center through various mentoring programs.

Since 2020, she is artistic advisor for photography for the Prix Swiss Life à 4 mains, which rewards a cross-creative and original project by a photographer and a composer.

Emilia Genuardi has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Swiss Life Foundation since 2021.