Gilles Mora

Gilles Mora (born 1945) is a French photography historian and critic specialising in 20th century American photography, and photographer. He has edited books on Walker Evans, Edward Weston, W. Eugene Smith, Aaron Siskind and William Gedney, as well as published a book of his own photographs, Antebellum. Mora won the Prix Nadar in 2007 for the book La Photographie Américaine: 1958–1981: the Last Photographic Heroes.

Mora launched the FRAC regional contemporary art fund in Bordeaux and oversaw photography at Éditions du Seuil. He was artistic director of Rencontres d'Arles and is currently exhibition curator at a museum in Montpellier, where he lives. He was co-founder of the magazine Les Cahiers de la photographie and founder of the journal L'Œuvre Photographique; both of which he was editor-in-chief of.

Life and work Mora was born in Vélines, Dordogne, southwestern France.

He was for a time professor at the Ecole Normale D'agen in Agen, southwestern France. In 1985, Mora launched the Fonds régional d'art contemporain (FRAC, regional contemporary art fund) in Bordeaux. In 1991, he was appointed collection director, overseeing the photography program for the publisher Éditions du Seuil, Since 2010 he has been exhibition curator of the People's Pavilion photography museum in Montpellier, where he lives.