The Lives of Others - Hardcover

R?gina Monfort is an independent photography and visual book editor experienced with long-form narratives. She has recently relocated from New York City to her native Brittany, France.During the 35 years spent in the United States, she worked in various capacities for cultural institutions such as the Dallas Museum of Art and Yale University and legendary photographers Irving Penn and Richard Avedon. From 1997 to 2002, she was the U.S. based assistant to documentary film director Jean-Pierre Krief on the series Contacts co-produced by Arte and Le Centre National de la Photographie in Paris. She has taught photography at CUNY La Guardia Community College and Pratt Institute and was a visiting instructor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 2015 to 2018, she served as co-curator of the Eyes on Main Street Outdoor Photo Festival. In 2011, she began to work as a visual book editor and had the opportunity to edit and sequence a number of monographs by award-winning photographers including Marcus Bleasdale, Tanya Habjouqa, Fausto Podavini, Stephen Shames, Danielle Villasana and Daniella Zalcman. Her own photographic work focusing on issues pertaining to youth, cultural identity and social stigmas has been exhibited widely and is in the permanent collections of the Library of Congress, the New York Public Library and the Yale Art Gallery among others. R?gina Monfort is a member of the American Photography Archives Group and on the Advisory Board of the FotoEvidence Association.