<a href='http://www.magnumphotos.com/C.aspx?VP3=CMS3&VF=MAGO31_10_VForm&ERID=24KL53Z82A' target='_blank'>Bruno Barbey</a> and <a href='http://www.magnumphotos.com/C.aspx?VP3=CMS3&VF=MAGO31_9_VForm&ERID=24KL53ZFL3' target='_blank'>Jean Gaumy</a> have been elected to the Academy of Fine Arts of the Institute of France. They will sit alongside Sebastiao Salgado and Yann Arthus-Bertrand, with the mission of encouraging artistic creation in all its forms and to ensure the defense of French cultural heritage.

Bruno Barbey was born in Morocco in 1941. He studied photography and graphic arts at the Ecole des Arts et Métiers in Vevey, Switzerland (1959-1960). During this decade, he produced commentaries on several European and African countries for Editions Rencontre in Lausanne and at age 25 joined Magnum alongside Henri Cartier-Bresson; he became vice-presidency for Europe in 1978-1979, and was President between 1992-1995.

Born in 1948, Jean Gaumy joined the Gamma agency in 1973 at the request of Raymond Depardon; in 1975, he began two long term projects on topics never before treated in France, the hospital (Hospital, 1976) and prisons (The Incarcerated, released in 1983). He joined Magnum in 1977. He received the Nadar Award in 2002 for "Pleine Mer" and in 2010 for "From Nature", a series of mountain landscapes. It is officially named Navy painter in 2008.