According to The New York Times, Quentin Bajac, chief curator of photography at the Pompidou Center in Paris, has been named as the new holder of that same position at MoMA. Bajac began his career at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, where he was a photography curator from 1995 through 2003. He joined the Pompidou Center as a photography curator in 2003 and was promoted to run the department four years later.

'Quentin’s superb accomplishments in Paris over the past 17 years, at the Musée d’Orsay and the Centre Pompidou, have brought significant attention to the importance of photography in art history and as a critical component of contemporary practice,' Glenn D. Lowry, the director of MoMA, said in a statement. Bajac will take up his new post in January.