Marin Karmitz
Founder of Mk2 cinemas
Member of the 2021 Contact Board (s) jury
Director, producer, distributor and exhibitor, great defender of independent cinema, Marin Karmitz is also an art collector. He presented his collection of photographs for the first time at the 2010 Rencontres d'Arles. In October 2018, La Maison Rouge Fondation Antoine de Galbert hosted the Étranger Résident exhibition, around his collection and presented nearly four hundred works. In connection with this passion for photography, he now chairs the Prefiguration Association of the Institute for Photography in Hauts de France. He joined the Contact Board jury in 2015.