Urs Stahel is a freelance writer, curator, lecturer, and consultant. Among his current roles are curator at Manifattura di Arti, Sperimentazione e Tecnologia (MAST), Bologna, Italy; consultant for the MAST collection of industrial photography; adviser to the Vontobel Art Collection and Foto Colectania, Barcelona, Spain. He was the Co-Founder of Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland, where he worked as director and curator between 1993 and 2013. He lives in Zurich.