William A. Ewing is an author, lecturer and curator of photography. Director of the Musée de l’Elysée in Lausanne from 1996 to 2010, his many publications on photography include The Body (1994) and Civilization (2018), published by Thames & Hudson.
Danaé Panchaud is a lecturer specializing in photography. She was the director and curator of the Photoforum Pasquart in Bienne, from 2018 to 2021. She is currently the director of the Centre de la photographie Genève.
Their stunning book Flora Photographica (Thames & Hudson, 2022) offers an overview of one of the most innovative areas of contemporary photography in presenting images of flowers by over 120 of the world’s leading practitioners such as Cindy Sherman, Thomas Ruff, Vik Muniz, Valerie Belin, Viviane Sassen and Martin Schoeller. There has never been a period in the history of photography where flowers have not been a central focus. Their book is both a celebration of organic beauty and a close look at the significance of flowers in human culture.