In memoriam, June 2017

Jol Brard, a director of the Maison Europenne de la Photographie, Paris, died on 5 May, aged 70. Born in Tarbes, Brard grew up in New York and Montreal and returned to France as a teenager in 1963. He became involved with Paris Audiovisuel from its foundation in 1978 and then helped to organise the Mois de la Photo biennial in 1980. He was the general commissioner of the biennial from its beginning to 2017. It was from the biennial that the Maison Europenne de la Photographie grew, and he was it