Gilles Mora was the editor in chief of the magazine Les Cahiers de la Photographie from 1981 to 1993. He was an editor with Editions du Seuil in Paris between 1992 and 2007, the artistic director of the Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie in Arles between 1999 and 2001, and, since 2011, has been the director of the city of Montpellier’s Pavillon Populaire, a prominent photographic museum. A specialist in American photography, Mora has written or cowritten important monographs on artists Walker Evans, Edward Weston, W. E. Smith, Charles Sheeler, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, and Aaron Siskind, as well as on the Farm Security Administration photographers. In 2007, he was awarded the Nadar Prize for The Last Photographic Heroes: American Photographers of the Sixties and Seventies.