Christian Caujolle, born February 26, 1953, in Sissonne, is a French journalist, photo agent, curator and photographer.
He is the artistic director of the Photo Phnom Penh festival (Cambodia), and of the Château d'Eau gallery in Toulouse.
From 2000 he was curator of significant exhibitions and festivals including Foto Biennale in Rotterdam (2000); PHotoEspaña Festival where he presented young Iranian photographers and Thai and Anglo-Saxon photographers based in Bangkok (2001) later presented at the DG Bank collection at the Kunsthalle in Frankfurt; S. and P. Stanikas installation at the Lithuanian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (2003); Hors Cadre by Gérard Rondeau, at the Grand Palais (Paris) and 50 years of World Press Photo - Things As They Are, photojournalism in context 1955 - 2005, which toured Amsterdam, Tokyo, Paris, and Seoul in 2001; and Phnom Penh Photo Festival (2008).
[3] On November 16, 2020, Christian Caujolle was appointed artistic advisor to the Galerie du Château d'Eau de Toulouse.
At the same time, and this is one of the very positive aspects of the development of digital technologies, saying today "I am a photographer" is a real choice: it is a very important statement, since it affirms, it defends the fact that the operator has decided to use a technology that involves a certain type of relationship to reality, a certain manufacture of temporality that is totally different[5]