CONTACT : email Nathalie Belayche @ foodforyoureyes

Nathalie Belayche is a Paris based independent curator, photo editor and writer involved in photography since many years. She is the founder and director of Food For Your Eyes, a platform, to promote, produce, exhibit, publish photography projects in collaboration with art galleries, photobook publishers, international photography festivals…

Food For Your Eyes was launched in 2007 as a web based project along with slideshow screenings and talks featuring the works of international contemporary photographers. Initially hosted in a photo shooting studio in Paris, ‘Food For Your Eyes Slideshow’ has been invited to perfom at photography festivals, at F/Stop in Leipzig (Germany), Eyes On/Month of Phography in Vienna (Austria) and at Foto8/Host gallery in London (UK).

Since 2004, Nathalie Belayche has curated several solo exhibtions showing the archive of Nat Finkelstein (“Stick to The Sixties”, 2004 and “A Tale of One City”in 2005 at Gordon Pym & Fils Gallery, Paris), and the work of Esther Levine ( “New York”at Gordon Pym & Fils Gallery and “ I Live Here” in 2007 at Mycroft Gallery, Paris), Malala Andrialavidrazana (The Ancestors’ Land” at Mycroft Gallery in 2008), Reiner Riedler (‘Fake Holydays’ for the 2008 Month of Photography in Paris at Heart Gallery). More rencently she curated the show “Street Photography Now” in collaboration with the book publisher Thames & Hudson in Paris (November 2010) and then it was presented in Cologne at Litchblick gallery (Dec 2010-Janv 2011) and at Uno Art Space in Stuttgart (April-June 2011). She is currently working on a group-show featuring emerging and established photographers from Africa to be exhibited in Paris, Fall 2011.

Also a contributing writer for the online photography magazine 1000 Words and writes for the French photography magazine Images.

She participated as an expert, jury member or porfolio reviewer to many photography events and festivals such as Rhubarb-Rhubarb, Month of Photography in Vienna, Photolucida-Critical Mass, Noordelicht Photo Festival, Asia-Europe Emerging Photographers Forum…

She studied Law and Art History at the University of Paris-X, graduated from Ecole d’Art & de Communication and was trained as a journalist. But always knew she was passionated with art and visual media as a way to better understand the world.