 CEO
of La Redoute since july 2003, Bertrand Talhouët made
most his career in the PPR group (Pinault Printemps Redoute)
in companies such as Printemps (director of the Haussman store,
then of the central buying office) then Fnac (chief executive
in charge of the development in France and overseas). He was
also in charge of the strategy and the horizontal management
structure cooperations of the PPR group. He's a graduate of
the Ecole Polytechnique and ENA (prestigious college training
senior civil servants) and started his career in the ministry
of finance in the department of the treasury responsible for
auditing public bodies. He's married and has 3 children.
"I'm
going to live through this 5th edition of the festival with
a lot of pride and enthusiasm since, not only am I both a
regular visitor and the manager of an image related company,
but I also accepted to become the president of this beautiful
adventure: the Transphotographiques.
On Olivier's request, I joined this project that surprised
us so much in the past and which definitely still has a lot
of pleasure to offer as of may 2005. The official program
supervised by Anne de Mondennard will be an in depth exploration
of the approach outlined by Jean-Luc Monterosso in 2004.
The program which has for theme "the territory"
gathers young artists among whom some will exhibit their works
for the first time on our territory. This perspective perfectly
matches the festival's objective since it was created in 2001.
We'll meet prestigious artists such as Raymond Depardon who
exhibits his vision of the Nord-Pas-De-Calais (which has never
been seen before) in the Hospice Comtesse, or Paolo Roversi
who exhibits his "studio"'s territory at the Palais
des Beaux arts de Lille( Lille's palace of fine arts). How
can one not be happy to see, after Lille 2004, so many institutional
and cultural sponsors, patrons and artists joining forces
to support the Transphotographiques in its development?
Given image -especially photography- is becoming more and
more important in our daily family lives, I invite you to
take the most of what this edition has to offer to us, to
Lille and to all the euro-regional territory"
Bertrand
de Talhouët
President of the festival
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