Like almost no other art form, photography draws on the myths of its origins—its background as an illegitimate child born of the lowly milieu of fairground arts, technology, and science. In a conversation with the artists Isabelle Le Minh (France) and Nozomi Suzuki (Japan), we explore the fascination of this history as a catalyst for new art, especially in these times of new technological upheavals.
Florian Ebner – Dominique de Font-Réaulx, Isabelle Le Minh, Nozomi Suzuki
About the speakers
Dominique de Font-Réaulx is a senior curator at the Louvre and Chair of the Scientific Committee for the Bicentenary of Photography. She has curated numerous exhibitions over the past thirty years. She chairs Le Point du Jour art centre in Cherbourg, teaches at Sciences Po and is Editor-in-Chief of Histoire de l’art. She is also co-curating Louvre Photo at the Louvre with Quentin Bajac.
Isabelle Le Minh is a French artist whose work examines photography, its history, techniques and theories. Her work is on view at the Centre photographique d’Île-de-France (CPIF) until the end of 2026 and will be exhibited at the Sprengel Museum in summer 2027, where she will receive the Spectrum International Prize for Photography. Her works are held in the collections of the Centre Pompidou, Cnap and BnF.
Born in 1983 in Saitama, Japan, Nozomi Suzuki is an artist whose photographic practice explores the memories embedded in objects. She holds an MFA and completed her doctoral program at Tokyo University of the Arts. In 2018, she conducted research in the UK with a grant from the Pola Art Foundation.
Florian Ebner is Head of the Photography Department at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Previously, he directed the Photography Collection at Museum Folkwang in Essen and curated the German Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale (2015). His curatorial work explores the social and political dimensions of photography. In 2025, he curated Wolfgang Tillmans: Nothing Could Have Prepared Us–Everything Could Have Prepared Us at the Centre Pompidou. Born in Regensburg, he lives and works in Paris.
Isabelle Le Minh, Kodak Tower - Red series Traumachromes, 2019 – Courtesy of the artist
Other visuals
- Portrait – Dominique de Font Réaulx – Courtesy of Laurence de Terline
- Portrait – Isabelle Le Minh – Courtesy of DR
- Portrait – Nozomi Suzuki – Courtesy of Takeshi Hirabayashi
- Portrait – Florian Ebner, 2024 – Courtesy of Wolfgang Tillmans