Sam Stourdzé

Sam Stourdzé
Period: 2007-2008
Profession: Sam Stourdzé is an exhibition curator and image specialist. His research focuses on the contexts in which images are produced, distributed and received. For several years now, he has been studying the mechanisms at work in the circulation of images, with a particular focus on the relationship between photography and cinema. His projects have taken him to the collections of Universal Studios (the great figures of fantasy cinema from the 1920s-1930s), and the Chaplin family archives (he edited the catalog for the exhibition Chaplin et les images, which he also curated). His new research explores Federico Fellini’s sources of inspiration. Stourdzé is a resident of the Académie de France in Rome in 2007-2008, and a member of the Collège de l’Institut de Recherche et d’Innovation (IRI) at the Centre Pompidou. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Société Française de Photographie and of the Orientation Council of the Fondation Henri Cartier Bresson.