Jean-Marie Donat (born in 1962) lives and works in Paris where he runs the independent creative editorial agency AllRight. For over 35 years he has been gathering a vast photographic collection of vernacular photographs focused on delivering a singular reading of the 20th century. He contributed to the Italian review Frigidaire at the beginning of the 1980s, was the studio manager and artistic director of Sarbacane Design for fifteen years, and participated in 2003 in launching Editions Sarbacane. With Alexandre Mestcherino, he created the Patate Records label, specialising in reissuing works by Jamaican artists.

His collections have been largely exhibited around the world, in particular at the Rencontres Photographiques d’Arles (2015), the Liangzhou Museum in China (2019), and the Lodz Fotofestiwal in Poland (2020).