OLIVIA BAES is a Franco-American writer, translator, curator, and filmmaker. Since 2019, she has translated works of fiction into English, including The Easy Life (Bloomsbury, 2022) and Six Films (Inpatient Press, 2025) by Marguerite Duras, and Into the Sun (New Directions, 2025) by Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz. She is the curator of the James Baes Foundation, where she is recontextualizing her father’s archive of erotic, fashion, and lifestyle photography, which spans from the 1960s to the 1990s. Her writing and visual work are preoccupied with the shifting question of the male and female gaze. She is currently working on The Beholder, a hybrid memoir drawn from her father’s photographic archive and own collage work, and her debut feature film, Je suis fleur (Buffalo Films, Anna Sanders Films), is forthcoming in 2027.