Françoise Poos

Françoise Poos is an independent researcher and curator. She holds a PhD in Visual Culture from the Photographic History Research Centre at De Montfort University, Leicester and she investigates the role of photographs in archives and museums and their link to memory and identity. She was a research collaborator at University of Luxembourg for the FNR funded FAMOSO-2 project from 2014 to 2017, which revealed new insight into the role of photographs as tools of corporate communication in the first half of the twentieth century and resulted in the exhibition La Forge d’une société moderne, organised jointly with the Centre National de l’Audiovisuel (CNA) in 2017. From 2010 to 2012 she was as consultant and researcher to the major exhibition Edward Steichen: The Bitter Years 1935 – 1941 at the CNA in Luxembourg for which she also edited the exhibition book, published in the UK, France and in the US. She chairs the Board of the Edward Steichen Award Luxembourg aimed at emerging artists and in July 2019 she has been appointed Board Chair of the Centre Culturel de Rencontre Abbaye Neimënster, Luxembourg.