Credits : Lise Dua

Christine Barthe is Head of the Photographic Collections Heritage Unit at the musée du quai Branly, and is in charge of acquisitions in early and contemporary photography. She is a member of the selection committee of the Photography award du musée du quai Branly Jacques Chirac, dedicated to contemporary photography.

She has curated a number of exhibitions, including recently at the musée du quai Branly-Jacques Chirac Ouvrir l'album du monde, photographies 1842-1911, (2023), Dinh Q. Lê, le fil de la mémoire et autres photographies, (2022), A toi appartient le regard et (...) la liaison infinie entre les choses, (2020), Photographs, An Early Album of the World at the Louvre Abu Dhabi Museum (2019). She was co-curator with Xavier Barral of Martin Gusinde, L'esprit des hommes de la Terre de Feu (Kyoto, Arles, Ushuaïa, 2015, Santiago 2016).