FC‑D • Paris   |   FR / EN

Judicial expert in photography

François Cam‑Drouhin — expert for the Paris Appeal Court: authentication, attribution, dating, identification of techniques, valuation, inventories, damage assessment, auctions, private sales.

Holland House Library after a bombing. London, 23 October 1940.
Holland House Library after a bombing. London, 23 October 1940.

Areas of expertise

  • Dating & identification of techniques (supports, processes, prints)
  • Authentication
  • Attribution
  • Valuation & market analysis
  • Inventories (private collections / institutions)
  • Damage assessment & condition reports
  • Auctions
  • Private sales

Work

Judicial and amicable expert reports. Advice for building collections. I organise between 6 and 8 photography auctions per year.

Profile

Graduate of the École du Louvre, the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and Sciences Po Paris, François Cam‑Drouhin has worked with auction houses for over ten years (Institut Catholique de Paris collection, Pierre Molinier, Willy Ronis, Émile Zola, Dora Maar). Winner of the Roederer / Bibliothèque nationale de France grant (2009) for research in the history of photography, he is currently pursuing doctoral work at CNAM on price formation in the photography market.