Dr Yasufumi Nakamori has been appointed unique senior curator,International Art (Photography) based at Tate Modern, heading up the development of Tate's collection of photography and programme of photography exhibitions and displays. He's taking up the post in October, and filling the gap left by Simon Baker back in January (when he became director of the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris).
For the last two years,Nakamori headed up the photography and unique media department at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, staging exhibitions with image-makers such as Omer quickly, or making key acquisitions "which transformed and diversified the museum's photography collection". From 2008-2016 he was curator of photography at the Museum of Fine Arts,Houston, where he created exhibitions such as Katsura: Picturing Modernism in Japanese Architecture, and Photographs by Ishimoto Yasuhiro (which won the 2011 Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award for Smaller Museums),and For a unique World to advance: Experiments in Japanese Art and Photography, 1968-1979.
Source: bjp-online.com