Thierry Gervais is an associate professor at Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson) and head of research at The Image Centre (RIC), Toronto. He was the editor-in-chief of Études Photographiques from 2007 to 2013. He curated the exhibition Dispatch: War Photographs in Print, 1854–2008 ...
Thierry Gervais is an associate professor at Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson) and head of research at The Image Centre (RIC), Toronto. He was the editor-in-chief of Études Photographiques from 2007 to 2013. He curated the exhibition Dispatch: War Photographs in Print, 1854–2008 (RIC, 2014) and co-curated exhibitions at the Centre Pompidou-Metz (2013), the Musée d’Orsay (2008), and the Jeu de Paume (2007). At the RIC, he organized five symposia (2012–2018) and edited The “Public” Life of Photographs (2016), the first volume of the academic “RIC Book” series published in partnership with MIT Press. His most recent book (with Gaëlle Morel) is The Making of Visual News. A History of Photography in the Pres, released by Bloomsbury in October 2017. His current research focuses on retouched press photographs.