Clara Sels was co-founder, with Werner Lippert, former director of NRW-Forum Düsseldorf, of the Düsseldorf Photo Weekend in 2011. In 2013 she took on sole management of the festival. The festival took place for the fifth time in 2016 and has become a firm component of the international photography scene. She is a photographer herself and owner of Galerie Clara Marie Sels in Düseldorf. Her first artistic photographers included Duane Michals and Francesca Woodman.

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