Timothy Persons is the founder and director of Gallery Taik Persons, Berlin, where he lives and works. He is also adjunct Professor at Aalto University School of Art, Design and Architecture in Helsinki, Finland. Persons is the principle architect behind the Helsinki School. Gallery Taik Persons is a contemporary art gallery representing established and emerging artists who use the photographic process as a conceptual tool. It is the prime gallery for those selected artists who now make up what is known as the “Helsinki School”. Persons has acted as curatorial advisor to Kulturhuset, Stockholm; KIASMA Museum of Contemporary Art and The National Museum of Photography, Copenhagen. He is on the Board of Paris Photo since 2006 and has curated more than 40 international photography exhibitions, written numerous books, and exhibited his own work worldwide.