The Jury of the ABSURIA 2026 Competition
A jury comprising individuals from diverse backgrounds who share a common passion: abstract and surrealist photography. A jury embodying the French Touch.
Caroline GASCH
🇫🇷 French photographer
A professional photographer and artist, Caroline Gasch has been developing an artistic practice for over 20 years that focuses on contemporary architecture, colour and the sensory perception of the urban landscape.
Her photographic work goes beyond mere documentary description to offer an emotional and sensitive interpretation of reality. Colour thus becomes a visual language in its own right.
Through her exploration of modern architectural forms, she composes images in which lines, surfaces, light and colour construct spaces on the border between reality and the imagination.
Her work oscillates between architectural photography, graphic abstraction and inner expression. She questions the perception of the contemporary urban landscape and offers a poetic vision in which the city becomes a source of sensation, memory and imaginative projection.
Based in Touraine since 2016, she actively participates in local cultural life whilst exhibiting regularly in France and internationally.
Awards
- 2025 – Jury’s Special Mention, Chromatic Awards
- 2024 – LICC (London International Creative Competition) Architecture shortlist, London
- Top Artist – Effeto Arte Venice
- 2023 – FFPMI Silver Medal
- 2022 – LensCulture Art Photography Awards
- 2021 – FFPMI Gold Medal
- European Photographer (FEPP)
- France’s World Cup Team Photo
- 1st prize in the International Art4Competition
Caroline exhibits regularly in France and abroad, and her work is frequently featured in art, interior design and photography magazines.
Marie-Pierre CHERRIER
🇫🇷 French photographer
Marie-Pierre Cherrier is a teacher at the photography college in Tours (France).
She approaches this profession with passion, enabling her to ‘see’ and ‘observe’ a photograph with a rare analytical eye.
As a professional photographer, she carries out product shoots in her studio for national and international brands.
As a creator and artist, Marie’s creativity and sensitivity are evident in her photographs, where the human form is ever-present, highlighted by a near-perfect mastery of natural or studio lighting.
Abstraction features in her photographic explorations, reflecting a desire to capture the sensations evoked by a striking thought.
Further information: Website
Bob JEUDY
🇫🇷 French collector and patron
As a collector, Bob Jeudy lives through art, with art and for art. It is of paramount importance to him to make art accessible and to promote it.
He collects paintings, sculptures and photographs in which abstraction and surrealism are ever-present.
A passionate advocate of street art, Bob is a founding member of the association Le M.U.R., established in Paris, France, in 2003. This association is dedicated to urban art and has expanded to nearly 30 cities.
Bob has just organised an Obey exhibition in Tours (France), which brought together nearly 400 works.
